Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily...
Works Projects' Commissioner Francis C. ("Pink") Harrington, with a reduced appropriation ($1,477,000,000) pared his rolls from 2,200,000 as of last week toward 1,800,000 by mid-September. By September i he must discharge 650,000 (one in three) WPAsters who have been on...
A nightmare which the European democracies and their satellites only whispered about was the alliance of great Communist Russia with great Fascist Germany, a mighty cordon of non-democracy stretching one-third around the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. There was no comfort in the hindseen reasons which...
1) Russia wanted as much peace as she could get, even at the expense of pulling her punches in Spain from 1938 on. If she joined the Allies, it might work out that she had merely balanced the European war scales; joining Germany tipped them, she could hope, to an...
At any rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely...