Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot in America, and lo! all the inhabitants are tumbling over one another in their desire for a glimpse of him-a desire which is the natural and pathetic outcome of their unsatisfied inner craving for a dynasty of their own. . . . But, given a republic, let the thing be done thoroughly, let the appearance be well kept up, as in Switzerland. Let the president be, as there, a furtive creature and insignificant, not merely coming no man knows whence, nor merely passing no man knows whither, but existing no man knows where; and existing not even as a name-except...
Meanwhile the Nye committee pumped J. P. Morgan, Thomas Lament and their partners, trying to prove that they had helped to grease the skids that plunged the U. S. into war. There was no evidence that they had tried to. It could not even be proved that they had done so unwittingly. Whatever the Nye committee did or did not prove, the new Peace Passion of the U. S. had to have an outlet. Its outlet was the Neutrality Act of August...
...months after this third Neutrality Act, Japanese bombs were again bursting in Shanghai. Far from declaring war, however, the Japanese insisted they were waging peace. So far as the Neutrality Act was concerned, there was no war in China unless President Roosevelt proclaimed it. To date he has not done so, and Congress in general has not been disposed to criticize him for his failure...
...Professor Besteiro stood tall and straight before a tribunal of three generals, one colonel and three lieutenant colonels while a court clerk read the long list of charges against him: he was a Socialist and had devoted his life to teaching doctrines that stir up the masses; he had done nothing to prevent the execution of conservatives by Madrid extremists; he was a member of a party that had been responsible for the deaths of Franco supporters...
...logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...