Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With Nazi Protector Baron Xeurath Leader Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival in P'aris. The fact that no Nazi bigwig was killed in the explosion convinced him, he said, that the Nazis themselves had set the bomb to increase the Fiihrer's popularity, and he cracked with a grin: "The beer hall, four weeks before, had been insured by a Swiss company...
...protective custody of Vassar's President Henry Noble McCracken (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), its eight-year-old feet set firmly on the path of progressive education. Ever since then, the college has wanted to record in film a "sustained visual explanation" of itself. Last week the wish was fact...
...pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained the fact that this seemed to be England's war-and most U. S. Catholic churchmen are of Irish origin...
Significant to Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...