Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lobban Cord and many another formed the "Committee for the Nation," became uninvited disciples of Professor Warren, went forth to preach his doctrine to businessmen and politicians. Last week Committeemen for the Nation had almost a free run of the White House office where their frequent visits left their impress upon the presidential mind...
...impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will...
...some Communists" is the tried and trusty maxim of Latin American politicos seeking diplomatic recognition by the Great Powers. In Havana last week the student-supported Cabinet of President Ramon Grau and the spunky Cuban Army now commanded by ex-Sergeant ("Emperor") Fulgencio Batista seized a fine chance to impress the world with their hostility to Reds...
...eccentric Lady Thackersey. Creeping into a motor car he was driven into Poona at a dusty 50 m.p.h. to face the executive committee of his All-India National Congress Party. The committee was restive, if not rebellious. Many of the Mahatma's followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing "untouchability" have left his more basic "civil disobedience" struggle against Britain far in the lurch. Since 1931, moreover, India has had a stern, strong-handed Viceroy- Canada's onetime Governor General, the Earl of Willingdon. His police have hounded civil disobedients so hard...
Metropolitan Opera singers helped impress Ann Arbor with Merry Mount's musical worth. Baritone John Charles Thomas, whom Manager Gatti lately engaged for next season, sang the heretic clergyman's music in a voice marvelously smooth and strong. Soprano Leonora Corona made a pneumatic Cavalier siren even in her formal, up-to-date evening dress. Demure Rose Bamplon was Plentiful Tewke, the Puritan maiden who was not quite tempting enough for Wrestling Bradford...