Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the President Harding docked on a Sunday morning gave newspapers time enough to discover at least how one of the world's most famed individuals had kept the news of his whereabouts a secret for a week. In Weald, Kent, where the Lindberghs' children, Jon and Land, remained last week, villagers are trained to secrecy about the Lindberghs. They booked passage as Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. Embarking at Southampton, Colonel Lindbergh wore dark glasses, remained unrecognized. For the first 24 hours of the voyage, he and his wife stayed in their cabins. To a steward, sent...
...Basic fact back of what was already being referred to as the "Belisha Purge" was that despite two years of furious rearming by Great Britain, production of heavy machine guns, tanks and artillery is way behind, there is a deficit of 12,000 men in the Army's authorized strength, and the General Staff is as knee deep in red tape...
...fact that pro-French, pro-League Nicholas Titulescu was greeted by National Peasant Party Leader Nicolai Lupu-who declared amid cheers, "You were deprived of your Cabinet post by trickery!"-set rumors buzzing. It was said that the Peasant Party will insure his re-election to a seat in the Rumanian Chamber and generally back his political comeback, although he never has belonged to the Peasant Party...
...like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country with Jews...
...thing no dictator can do is control the weather. Another thing no dictator can do is make cinemaddicts prefer one movie star to another. Hollywood's dictator, the box office, realistically recognizes this fact, always bows to the unpredictable will of the people. Last week a nationwide poll on the comparative popularity of current cinema stars showed Hollywood which way to bow. The one-day poll was conducted by 53 newspapers of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate (combined circulation approximately 20,000,000) in the U. S. and Canada. Results (male and female separately...