Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thereafter he returned to Washington hoping he would not have to attend to another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely made up their minds not to know anything about any Sino-Japanese bloodletting, for declaring a Neutrality Act embargo would deprive defending China of needed supplies, have little effect on Japan. Rather than kick old friend John Chinaman when he was down, Franklin Roosevelt had decided to overlook the fact that he was taking an awful drubbing...
...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
...provided with a trim young blonde fresh from a secretarial school. Put to work on routine typing, the new stenographer tended strictly to business. After a fortnight she went to Thelma Goldman, said: "Maybe you'll think I'm dumb, Thelma, but I still don't know what you people manufacture...
...shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...
...reports on the Board's work. In the President's opinion the fact that the Board had been attacked by both Labor and Capital was conclusive evidence that both sides were being fairly treated. Congressman Rankin's comment: "The President has evidently been misinformed. I know he means well...