Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know how you gentlemen feel, but I cannot help feeling . . . that there has been definite and distinct progress toward a spiritual reawakening. ... It is a very significant thing that this awakening has come about in America. It makes me realize more fully that we do have, in addition to the duty we owe to our own people, an additional duty to the rest of the world. Things have been going on in other countries, things which are not spiritual in any sense of the word-and that is putting it mildly...
...saving the world for Democracy at a total cost to the U. S. of 126,000 lives and $40,000,000,000. If that was the tragic gamut Mr. Roosevelt was about to embark on, last week the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives wanted to know about it. In the Senate the President's mouthpiece answered categorically NO! Before a House committee the answer sounded for a while like maybe. This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull said...
...threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign policy of our Government-non-interference and non-intervention in the affairs of other governments. I know of no instance so far of that policy being violated...
...Government. Meanwhile, in Chicago, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas argued the case before the Commonwealth Club: "I am shocked at the far-flung cry of 'Wolf, wolf' from the mouths of management over the grave dangers of the misnamed 'death sentence,' for I know the fears which that spectre generates in investors. And I know how unfounded that fear is, because I know that its basic threat is not to investors but to certain types of management, essentially concerned with retaining economic power...
Colonel Apted was immediately offered the post of manager which he declined on the grounds that he doesn't know anything about the sport. Although his secretary, an enthusiastic bowler herself, came forth with a cheerful suggestion about having a general day off declared for the match, the Colonel remarked that all alley-work would be done on the cops' own time...