Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact remains that the Chicago dancers have lost their opera jobs through no fault of theirs, and Chicago audiences are deprived of the pleasure of enjoying the brilliant and successful ballets which their own ballet group have been offering for the past five years. RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR...
Popular are: 1) Franklin Roosevelt's personality, liked by 80.3%, disliked by 11.7%* of the people (liked in fact by a majority in every section of the U. S., of every class and occupation); 2) his rearmament policy liked by 63.6%, disliked by 13.2%; 3) F. D. R. as President, approved of "in general" by 54.8%, disapproved of by 33.9%; 4) his international policy, liked by 50%, disliked by 15%; 5) his wages-&-hours legislation, liked by 48.8%, disliked by 21.8%; 6) his eco-nomic objectives, liked by 48.1%, disliked by 29.1%; 7) his attitude toward unions, liked...
...Sudetendeutsch Partei has said that it wants the Sudeten region given back to Germany. The Czechs grimly joke that if an anschluss were granted it would not be long until they were anschlussed, too. In point of fact, any dismemberment of Bohemia would be fatal to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Bohemia, seat of some 80% of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries, is the industrial heart of the Republic. Effective and prosperous, it is the one island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason...
...beginning of the Hitler regime, thousands of Jews have moved to Berlin, hoping to escape notice there, believing that the presence of diplomats and foreign correspondents in the capital would prevent too drastic persecution by the Nazi Government. For the last two years anti-Jewish activity has, in fact, taken place largely outside of Berlin. Last week, however, this condition changed suddenly and Berlin was treated to as severe a series of anti-Semitic persecutions as has yet taken place in the Third Reich...
Meanwhile, there was great moaning in Brooklyn when its baseball fans read the life story of young Vander Meer in the newspapers. They were not stirred by the fact that he had pitched five no-hit, no-run games in one season when he was 16 (for New Jersey semi-pro teams), nor the fact that he had played the role of "the typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average...