Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang any large part of the "blame" on J. P. Morgan & Co. seems to TIME to be first-class politics and third-rate history. TIME, Aug. 14, made a point of the fact that before the U. S. entered the War the House of Morgan was sentimentally and financially interested in helping the Allies to obtain loans and buy war supplies in the U. S. This is the gist of what the Nye committee established. But between this fact and the conclusion that...
...absence of any sharp new angle, any strong new drive in Mr. Roosevelt's messages reflected the fact that he and his Cabinet (only Messrs. Hull. Murphy, Woodring, Edison and Ickes were at hand) had been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived...
...with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary party. Quick-eyed, anxious to seem hearty and flexible, eager to dispel the aura of his title by democratic .manners, expected to travel and speak more than Sir Ronald did, his assignment (in cold fact) is to follow up on the visit of King George & Queen Mary, align the U. S. as close as may be behind an Empire whose back is close to the wall. His hope: "To do half as well as Joe Kennedy...
...Betty Hicks of Long Beach, Calif., golf fans' new-found darling, who, despite her no lb., her 18 years and the fact that she could not break 100 a year ago, reached the semi-finals by mowing down three titans, Mrs. William Hockenjos, Fay Crocker and Maureen Orcutt-all pre-tournament favorites...
...Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced it had outsold "any other Cola drink in bottles" by more than 50% in the metropolitan district, had outrun, in fact, all the "Cola" drinks, of which there are some 35 in New York alone...