Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collective Eyes Sirs: TIME, Aug. 21, states, "The press forgot that Snite and his bride were married by a Catholic priest, that the Catholic Church forbids the marriage of an impotent person" (italics mine, J. C.). Amusing is the thought that TIME'S editors, who have done such a creditable job in reporting news of the Catholic Church, allowed this absurd statement to slip by their collective eyes. Evidently the press knew, and TIME did not, that no Catholic is ever questioned before or after marriage as to his potency or impotency. JOHN M. CONROY...
...next referred to the formal, legal basis of the country's present-day Neutrality. He would, he said, issue two proclamations: one of his own which "would have been done even if there had been no neutrality statute," and one required by the statute, to which he paid his respects by saying: "I trust that in the days to come our neutrality can be made a true neutrality...
...soon as I have carried out my program for Germany I shall take up my painting. I feel that I have it in my soul to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me, not for what I have done for Germany...
...first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want...
...could say that the Government could have done more to try and keep open the way for an honorable and equitable settlement. . . . We shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man. The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery in order to serve his own senseless ambitions...