Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Secretary of State Byrnes carried out his promise to be firmer, in what one high-placed official called at least a "mildly firmer" way. He informed Moscow that the U.S. "cannot remain indifferent" to Russia's continued occupation of Iran. He reminded Moscow a second time that the...
In so speaking, Editor Canham was following the precept of the Monitor's late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that...
"Lute Song" is one of the riskiest theatrical experiments tried in the last decade, one which required courage and good taste for its very genesis. Sidney Howard and Will Irwin have adapted a 550-yard-old Chinese classic into what earns the appelation of a charming and artistically superb love...
A fiery temper has occasionally impelled Chateaubriand to language that no family journalist should use. Just after one of his papers had guttersniped a dashing engineer named Clito Bockel, Chateaubriand found himself toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel...
Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti.