Word: informingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentlemen, I have you on the hip! As a cover-to-cover reader of both TIME and LIFE, please inform me: is The Goldwyn Follies worth seeing...
Before going to the White House the five had lunch with Donald Richberg who represents the spirit of NRA which still flutters in the back of Franklin Roosevelt's mind. Mr. Richberg was supposed to precede the others to the White House to inform the President of their mood and current notions. Whether by accident or design, they kept Mr. Richberg talking until just before their 5 p. m. appointment. What went on when they entered the President's office was not disclosed. It appeared afterward that while there had been no criminations from either side, there...
...programs consist of talks on controversial topics by provocative speakers and questions from the audience. What makes them exciting is uninhibited heckling. The speakers heckle each other and the audience heckles everybody. The auditors boo and cheer, are made up of the rich and poor, the well-informed and the ignorant. Once a questioner shouted: "I don't object to President Roosevelt's using the radio to inform the country on the state of the nation but I do object to his using it to propagate...
...whole many nations are not only continuing but are enlarging their armament programs. I have used every conceivable effort to stop this trend and to work toward a decrease of armaments. Facts, nevertheless, are facts. and the United States must recognize them. Will you, therefore, be good enough to inform the subcommittee on Naval Appropriations that after the next session of Congress has met, it is possible that I may send supplementary estimates for commencing construction on a number of ships additional to the above program?" ¶In a proclamation carefully guarded until markets closed on New Year...
Before the week was out Franklin Roosevelt called Cordell Hull to the White House and directed him to demand that the Japanese Foreign Office inform Japan's sacred Emperor Hirohito-the divine Son of Heaven and 129th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess who helped "produce the land and people of Japan"-that the President of the U. S. was shocked and concerned at Japan's behavior. For Japanese-American relations had not been so clarified as mealy-mouthed Admiral Honda believed, and they had reached a more dangerous pass than he might have cared to believe last...