Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor was the fact that Mme Chiang, her sister Mme H. H. Kung, wife of China's Premier, and their brother T. V. Soong, Big Banker to the Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...
...were assisted by Poland's Foreign Minister Josef Beck, who scarcely conceals his Nazi leanings. Colonel Beck, before leaving Warsaw to visit Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath in Berlin, roundly declared: "The present world crisis is primarily a League crisis, caused by the League's failures. . . . The fact that the League from its inception did not embrace all countries, and particularly the stronger countries,* was the origin of this crisis...
Stalin, when drafting the new Soviet Constitution (TIME, June 15, 1936 et seq.), made it possible for any legally registered society to nominate candidates for office, forgetting or ignoring the fact that there are 30,000 such religious groups in Russia today. When Christians entered the campaign, Stalin was reminded. He promptly put a stop to it. With refreshed memory he last week acted to crush Christian presumption...
Virgin Birth. Historical evidence is "inconclusive," although the Archbishop of York believes in it, as he does in the Resurrection, which the commission calls "the central fact in human history...
Radio listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...