Word: factful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bawling Mr. Kuhn and the bawling committeemen between them produced one significant fact: "To level off this vicious criticism," the Bund has discarded its Storm Trooper uniforms, its Hitler Swastikas, the Nazi salute...
...four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week the Senate got ready to shift its burden to the House. Its own show was running...
Behind the treaty's signing was a background of money, diplomatic scheming, intrigue, the threat and promise of arms. Undoubtedly assisting French Ambassador René Massigli and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen in their talks with Turkish statesmen was the fact that they could promise an immediate large credit. Impressive also to practical-minded Turks must have been the fact that in nearby Syria that old French Near East campaigner, General Maxime Weygand, had collected an imposing Army of 50,000 Frenchmen and that farther south in Jerusalem Lieut.-General Archibald Percival Wavell, who during...
...defenses and for fitting herself out as a raider on her return trip. He described an air of tension aboard after the ship cleared Belfast and Liverpool on Sept. 2: repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict. Mr. Anderson was at dinner when the explosion occurred. He had nothing to say about what he thought caused the blast...
...British do it differently. Masters of fact-presenting as well as of fiction, they have managed to convince the world, by promptly reporting disasters (and, not so promptly, victories) that whatever comes from their official spokesmen is accepted as dead on the level...