Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body wished, the 110-page transcript of his hearings of the three TVA directors. Moreover, said the President to the assembled press, the President was tired of reading that the White House had been bringing pressure to bear against a Congressional investigation of TVA. So incensed was he, in fact, by this charge that he wanted the reporters to put on the record his statement that any special writer or columnist who had suggested it had "made it up out of whole cloth...
...able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief in the League as an instrument of preserving peace has been...
...deliberately use the word 'attitude' rather than policy," he weightily continued, "because I cannot imagine that any event would change the fundamental basis of British foreign policy, which is the maintenance and preservation of peace and the establishment of a sense of confidence that peace will in fact be maintained...
...aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings. Various other winged characters teach Speedy and his sister air lore, give them unending confidence in air travel. Its object: to take advantage of the fact that attitudes of mind are quickly and permanently affected by propaganda absorbed in childhood...
...Texas Railroad Commission) with the same sort of amused tolerance with which they once looked on the 18th Amendment. Millions of barrels of hot oil have been pumped out of the ground, and numerous minor employes of small companies have been indicted. But the startling fact is that no oil man who maintained his innocence has been tried for violation of the Connally...