Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress the Bulkley proposal was but one more symptom of the fact that 1938 is an even-numbered year. In odd-numbered years, like 1937, the undisputed political capital of the U. S. is the disfranchised district of Washington, D. C. But in even-numbered years, like 1938, primaries and elections turn the political tides back from the Potomac to be replenished by votes. Swirling and churning through thousands of U. S. county seats and many a State capital, by last week the active electoral waves had already begun to sway the political fortunes of 1938 and beyond...
...Lewis tried to put the best face he could on the contract with an optimistic declaration thai: "it preserves the current wage structure." But he devoted most of his statement to his old line of buttering up Steelman Taylor. Said Laborman Lewis: "The fact that our minds were able to meet on questions of principle and policy is a tribute to Mr. Taylor not only as a leader of industry but as an American devoted to the furtherance of ration,: relationships and national stability...
Such sermons as this Pastor Niemoller preached Sunday after Sunday to Berlin's most fashionable congregation, and the fact that they stood and still stand by him is proof of how little liking German aristocrats have for the whole Nazi claptrap of neopaganism and "pure race." The issue of the Jews is a separate issue, and neither the Dahlem aristocrats nor their pastor have shown themselves pro-Semitic, if anything the reverse. In the fiery prisoner-pastor's words: "Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the Cross...
...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
...Lloyd Wright at the top of his powers, undoubtedly the world's greatest living architect, a man who can dance circles around any of his contemporaries," said Mr. Mumford. "Architecturally . . . the chief claim of the World's Fair on the attention of posterity will be the preposterous fact that Wright was not called in to design...