Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further fact is that the American citizen does not like this. . . Is it not utterly ridiculous to consider any type of legislation whatsoever which will allow this deplorable alliance with Japan to continue? Why do not the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee make short work of each and every proposal which does not have the mechanism TO STOP THIS COUNTRY FROM ARMING JAPAN? . . . Despite public statements to the fact that we are no longer shipping bombing planes to Japan, informed persons know that other types of planes can be shipped, that airplane parts cross...
...never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
...cutting taxes: "There is a hullabaloo for the repeal of the undistributed earnings tax. You would think that this was the principal deterrent to business today. Yet it is a simple fact that out of $1,100,-000,000 paid to the Federal Government by corporations, less than $20,000,000 conies to the Government from the undistributed earnings tax-less than 2% of the total. . . . I am wholly willing to have this $20,000,000 tax . .. repealed on two simple conditions, which are based on principle. . . ." (The two: raise it from the big corporations, find another substitute for taxing...
...fact about Joe Grew is that the Japanese are his friends. Part of the magnificent, $1,250,000 Tokyo Embassy which the U. S. Government completed in 1931 is a cluster of three tiny tea houses where Ambassador and Mrs. Grew can make the touchiest Japanese patriot feel at home. Mrs. Grew has the background for it: her grandfather was that Commodore Perry who once opened Japan to the western world in 1853; her father was a teacher in Japan, and she was born there...
...battlefields, through cobblestoned alleys and over bedecked streets to the Provincial House of Parliament. Over the route Quebec's 140,000 inhabitants stretched thinly but politely, regarding the King curiously, but whispering of the Queen: "Qu'elle est charmante?" "Qu'elle est chic!" In point of fact, the Queen, who has never ranked among Europe's ten best dressed women had never looked smarter. U. S. fashion experts, noting her clothes from news photographs, were pleasantly surprised at the Queen's style...