Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must not, you cannot break up this conference and go home to start a civil war. ... I have insisted, I now do insist, that you bring this matter to a civilized conclusion, that you furnish . . . coal to America, somehow, soon. I ask, I insist on behalf of the American people and the American Government that you not break up this conference today...
Since that time, however, the Prime Minister has soft-pedaled appeasement, and the German press has vilified the man once pictured as Germany's friend. Last week German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, watchdog of the Reich's reading and photographic matter, outlawed the post cards under a Nazi law for the "protection of national symbols...
Psychologist Skeel's conclusion: more than anything else, for mental growth children need "adult affection and stimulation," no matter from whom it comes...
...expansive first lady was guaranteed her radio job, at a salary of at least $7,000 a week, for three more years, in a non-cancellable contract the like of which has been written in radio only once before (for Jack Benny two years ago). Most radio contracts, no matter what their other terms, are cancellable at 13-week junctures. Kate's may be suspended, but only in case...
...plan is to succeed in future years, it must not continue to be predicated on an impossibly romantic basis. Harvard students an masse will not voluntarily swallow an American History pill, no matter how heavily coated with sugar. Nor is a compulsory course a solution, striking as it does at the root of a college system which has only one common requirement for all its graduates: that they be able to write and swim. The plan faces two alternatives. It may become incorporated in the curriculum as an informally taught course in American Civilization. Or it may remain strictly extra...