Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russell served nine years, and this winter, with the advent of Mayor Lyons to the mayoralty, the Signal Service Company has again brought up the matter. In fact they say that they are planning to remove the lights, unless ducats are forthcoming...
Basing his statement on the fact that the Massachusetts income tax is already nearly unbearable, and that increasing tax rates on real estate were driving industry out of the sate, he said that the proposed sales tax would only mean four cents a day from any man that received the salary of $25 a week. This is about half of the tax that goes into one package of cigarettes and would not be intolerable...
...voice of Mme. Kirsten Flagstad is perfectly adapted to interpret such roles as Brunnhilde and Isolde; and it is largely to the Norwegian soprano's credit that Wagner has zoomed to the heights of favor in this country. Proof that Boston is still Wagnerian minded is demonstrated by the fact that already the seats for "Tristan," "Parsifal,"and "Lohengrin" are completely sold...
...England are negligible, Kerensky traced the reasons why the attempt of his government to establish democracy on Russian soil came to nothing after only eight months. "The essential cause of the Bolshevik victory in Russia," he said, "was the very difficult war in which we were engaged and the fact that the Revolution began during the war--not before, as in the French Revolution...
Speaking of the Panay incident, films of which were shown at the conclusion of the lecture, he said, "The fact that some 80 Japanese soldiers who ran out into the river in an attempt to warn the attacking bombers of the Panay's nationality were machine-gunned, and two officers killed, does not indicate that the attack was a result of an order from higher...