Word: factful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace by Encyclical? Nobody listened to the Reichstag speech with more attention than Pius XII. He canceled all Vatican engagements and gave his radio ear (he speaks German). The Pope was reported as being "favorably impressed by the moderate tone of the speech and especially by the fact that Herr Hitler did not utter drastic threats or set a time limit for acceptance of his peace proposals." Pope Pius suspended work on his peace encyclical pending further Allied reactions...
...Kremlin was preparing to take almost defenseless Bessarabia from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
Since the Viceroy's voice in the Indian Government is more powerful than the votes of all legislators put together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly...
Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have...
...brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four games. Only five years ago the famed Dean Brothers (Dizzy & Daffy...