Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last weekend there was no one to meet them, no one to afford them even the bare rudiments of hospitality. If it had not been for one or two public spirited Harvard racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors to supper, and put them up in their rooms...
Most articles in memory of Colonel House have eulogized his unselfish devotion to American politics and diplomatic wisdom during the War years; none have stressed the fact, which will be equal to any other when all are collected and analyzed, that he was a reformer. In 1912, twenty years after he began, as a rich and influential citizen, to prompt behind the political curtain of Texas, there was published anonymously a novel called "Philip Dru, Administrator." Later House admitted that it came from his pen, but even today that political novel, the philosophy of which was drawn from the liberal...
Much that is irrational and unsound has been used in the fight against the Byrnes bill. The cry of "dictator" is ridiculous; as a matter of fact, the proposed extension of the Civil Service will lessen the President's power by taking the weapon of patronage from him. The division of the pre-audit and the post-audit functions which caused so much opposition will place the control of expenditure in the hands of Congress where it rightfully belongs--and where it theoretically resides today. To call the bill "a dagger in the heart of democracy" ignores the fact that...
...President had all the power to carry out the proposed reforms, and didn't use it. As a matter of fact, the Mobilization Day Bill goes further toward dictatorship than anything I've seen, and doesn't fulfill its avowed purpose of "taking the profit out of war." There's where it might be justifiable to shout 'dictator...
...Young People's Religious Union, high school group here for a religious rally, were particularly impressed by the fact that Stoughton had been built with the proceeds of a lottery...