Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official application of the Neutrality Act that the Sino-Japanese conflict bears to a declared...
...that the Administration chastise the Southern Democrats who were scuttling the Wages & Hours Bill. For the past two months the stories about an imminent break have been inspired by none other than John L. Lewis. Meantime William Green has been a more frequent and conspicuous White House caller-a fact which has not helped the C. I. O. organizers in the field. And then came last week's meeting...
They would have succeeded were it not for the fact that the engines would not start and that a Leftist engineer dodged behind a bulkhead and began firing his pistol, killing one of the raiders. Before French harbor police had been able to come out to investigate the row the subernappers had escaped, taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped...
...amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more in view of the forces arrayed, the big fact then is that Non-Intervention was scuttled last...
...fact that this fall's turnout was larger by ten than that of last year may be a predicting gesture that the tide in once more coming in. At any rate for two hours yesterday head Freshman Coach Stahley, aided by line coach, Latta Macray, and backfield coach, George Hedblom, conducted the first practice of the 1941 season...