Word: either
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defensive, and may lay it open in the future to accusations of "failing" the city. Of course, Cambridge's financial condition may indeed be due to decreased tax income. So says the Mayor. But perhaps it is more attributable to an often extremely uneconomical city government. In either case, Harvard cannot be expected to ameliorate the deficit unless it wishes to function as a sort of general sinking fund for Cambridge deficits...
...down. Another who had already sat down defeated was Utah's King, who had embodied his hope of economy in a proposal for an automatic cut of 10% in all appropriations made by this session of Congress. The rest of the Senate's economy bloc had either yielded too or, succumbing to political schizophrenia, recast themselves as members of the Senate's farm bloc. When the bill came to a vote, only 14 Senators mustered courage to vote No. Even such Democratic economizers as Adams, Byrd, Byrnes, such Republican economizers as Taft and McNary...
...Polish Government moved to bar any discussion of Danzig from the League of Nations Council session meeting late this month. The Poles want no mediation at Geneva, either. Danzig affairs are handled at the League by a committee of three: Britain, France and Sweden. The League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long...
...Italians will not leave at least until after the big victory parade in Madrid, many times postponed, now tentatively scheduled for May 19. The Condor Legion is expected shortly to return home by way of Vigo. But neither's going means the end of either German or Italian participation in Spanish affairs, and the fact that the Germans are leaving first does not indicate that they are abandoning Spain to their Italian partners...
This week the State Department refused either to confirm or deny the authenticity of General Krivitsky. The Soviet Embassy said it had never heard of any such person. The New Masses stuck to its guns. The Dies Committee invited the general to Washington. The Post, pleased with all the publicity, scheduled the next article of its series...