Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp note of October 6 warning that U. S. trade and other rights in China must be preserved, was "not responsive." Japan had talked vastly and vaguely about a "new situation" in China. As in the case of Germany, there was absolutely nothing the State Department could do except perhaps send another, sharper note, and get back another, vaguer reply. Simple fact of the matter was that for the first time since the clipper-ship era of which Franklin Roosevelt is so fond, the first time since Commodore Perry opened Japan to U. S. trade in 1854, and since Roosevelt...
Haled before the grand jury, Brother Joseph refused to answer questions except about the mysterious Del Gado, said the story of the false-bottomed car was "theatrical." Under grilling he broke down, crying: "I am a poor man. . . . I've always been an honorable one. ... If this jury indicts me I hope it won't make the bail too high." The jury did indict him, along with Mayor Shaw's civil service commissioner, William Cormack, and another officeholder named only as "John Doe," on felony charges carrying a possible 14-year prison sentence...
...duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only judge of the fairness of the utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...
...Nobody knew how many Jews in Germany, Austria or the rest of the world have committed suicide for no reason except intolerable sadness. But typical was the case of a Mrs. Julia Glus, 28-year-old Austrian Catholic refugee who turned on the gas in her apartment. This happened not in Vienna or Berlin but in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Widower Glus afterward: "We are Christians, but we do not approve of the Jewish martyrdom...
...opposing team's divers have three-meter facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...