Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke, he and Secretary Wallace were making a tour of Resettlement projects-a tour originally planned to stir Mr. Wallace's enthusiasm for them. Before it began, however, it had turned into a farewell tour. When newshawks caught up with them at Memphis, Henry Wallace loyally declared: "You know. Rex has been one of the most vigorous fighters for the capitalistic system that I know of. ... Men of Tugwell's courage and insight are rare. We shall all regret that he is no longer in Government...
...prosecutor pounced. "What did Denhardt know?" roared he. "Why did he speak of her in the past tense if all he knew was that she had gone up the road to find a lost glove...
...impossible to contemplate the general prosperity of the country with unalloyed satisfaction when we know that at the same time there are districts to which that prosperity has never penetrated; where hundreds of thousands of men are still unemployed, some of them having been out of work for years, and many of them, the younger ones particularly, who have never known what it was to earn their own living and in whom even the will to work is decaying. Such a deplorable fact afflicts the conscience of the nation and the desire to do something to solve this problem...
...handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...
...back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor but only acted in concert with two veterans' organizations, and that anyhow the still-living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today in Paris that he was a deserter, and they ought to know. Friends retorted that, in Germany, Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should be in his favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court...