Word: fated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educate the American people against all false and unscientific doctrines, "such as the racial nonsense of the Nazis," as Boas put it. Agents of Fascism were seen to be increasingly active, and Boas urged that his colleagues join with men of "good will" to defend democracy, and avoid the fate which was meted out to men like Albert Einstein, James Franck, and Thomas Mann...
When the "deux chambres" convene, then, they will have before them an important choice. Either they may vote approval of Daladier's strike-suppression, or they may rebuke his dictatorial methods and call for a national plebiscite on the fate of the forty-hour week. The deputies have no other leader to whom they can turn, and so they cannot overthrow the Daladier government. Yet in the present crisis they must not abdicate their functions. The decision which the "deux chambres" make is a crucial one: a rebuke to Daladier may save French democracy, a ratification of his actions will...
WASHINGTON--The Republican National Committee, riding the tide of sweeping triumphs in the Nov. 8 elections, held its annual meeting today with many of its leaders convinced that the party's fate in 1940 will be written in the coming session of Congress...
...Netherlands, for that matter, is much better able than was Czechoslovakia to disregard any "advice" which the Great Powers may give about parceling out colonial territory-if the Big Four themselves can agree. But Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini risk becoming deadlocked in disagreements. This has been the fate of almost every Peace, Disarmament or Economic Conference of the past 15 years, and in desperation Europe is now trying "shirtsleeve diplomacy...
...Hope the aviator Magnin explains that, while no revolutionist, he is drawn more closely to revolutionists when they suffer defeat. The observation is true of Malraux himself. At odds with the Communists after 1927, embodying severe criticisms of Comintern policy and tactics in Man's Fate and championing Trotsky, he swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said...