Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between the deficit, $1,459,000,000 and the increase of the public debt, $740,000,000 was due to the fact that the Treasury spent $337,000,000 of its cash on hand at the end of the previous year, and $382,000,000 of net receipts from Government trust accounts...
...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
Illustrative of the growth of espionage in France is the fact that in 1932 only 16 spies were caught, that in 1934 a total of 95, 84 of them foreigners, were caught. During 1937 the number jumped to 150 for the Strasbourg area in Alsace alone and this year an average of nearly four spies a week, mainly German and Italian, have been detected near France's famed Maginot Line...
...sent to French Guiana since the penal colony was established in 1852. Some commentators have pictured the colony as a happy, carefree settlement. The French Guiana climate is always humid, with the temperature ranging from 68 to 90 degrees, with frequent trade winds from both southeast and northeast. Undeniable fact, however, is the large number of deaths, which each year has generally equaled the number of importations, as well as the large number of men of broken health and spirits who escape...
...Catholic authorities deny that such a ceremony, if any in fact was performed, could be valid because no action has been taken by the Sacred Roman Rota to dissolve the Countess' previous marriage...