Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lichfield, onetime home of famed, blustering Dr. Samuel Johnson. In these contests, although Laborites and Liberals have rejected the idea of a "Popular Front" to oppose Prime Minister Chamberlain, the two parties fortunately managed to put but one candidate in the field. Last week anti-Chamberlain factions bewailed the fact that two Opposition candidates had split the Aylesbury field, but a united front would have meant little change in the result. The Conservative Party has long had the Aylesbury constituency under control...
Prolific, 34-year-old Oliva Dionne, of Callander, Ont., has long pouted over the fact that he has little control over the welfare and fortunes of his famed five daughters, Yvonne, Emilie, Annette, Marie and Cecile. The Ontario Provincial Government has never been seriously concerned over the other seven living Dionne young, but has kept the Quintuplets in separate, guarded quarters. Last month Papa Dionne demanded a general inquiry by the Ontario Government into the handling of the Quintuplets' affairs by strong-willed Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Judge J. A. Valin and Percy D. Wilson, his fellow members...
...antiSemitic, anti-native, anti-British, pro-Nazi Nationalist Party had designed the poster as a "horrible example" of what would happen if Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog's and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Smuts's United Party Government were continued in office. Left unmentioned was the fact that custom prevents miscegenation in the Union of South Africa and between 1932 and 1936 records show that not one white woman had married a native in the Union...
...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
...view of the fact that the regular graduation exercises will be held on June 23, the presentation will take place on July 11, at a special exercise to be held in University Hall...