Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress is over, I wish to take this opportunity to express to you and your wonderful journal our sincere thanks for your co-operation with the Pan-American Medical Association...
...Indiana Republican, tried to tag on a provision for paying off the Bonus with "greenback" currency, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas Democrat, thundered. "I am authorized to say for the President that he is unqualifiedly against this amendment. . . . The currency inflation provisions of this bill are intended for the express purpose of enabling the Treasury to make provision for maturing Federal obligations." The Roosevelt steamroller flattened the Bonus.* As an amendment to the farm relief bill, Inflation was adopted by the thwacking vote 64-to-21. Only two other Democrats - North Carolina's Bailey and Ohio's Bulkley...
...editorials of the second issue of the Harvard Critic express the same apologetic point of view as those of the first. "We know that this is poor stuff, but then this is Harvard, academic, in different, intellectually moribund Harvard; what can you expect?" Once more the editors cry out for someone with something...
...plea for enlightened, that is to say, non-revolutionary socialism. On the whole, this is a very moderately subversive publication. It should not cause great agitation among the conscript fathers. Yet it has accomplished the objects of its editors, namely, to provide a channel through which students could express themselves and to prove that some Harvard men could be "aroused" from their "intellectual lethargy and negativity." It is well that from time to time these things should be done
...special Moscow-Berlin express, supplied by the Soviet Government, piled some 60 Chinese-men, women, children, soldiers, bodyguards and generals. In the centre of the group was that irrepressible jack-in-the-box, droop-whiskered General Ma Chan-shan. Bland General Ma was acclaimed "China's Hero" year and a half ago when he offered the only serious resistance to Japanese invasion of Manchuria (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Immediately thereafter he put on an exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before...