Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently you printed a letter re the U. S. Government's not paying rent for cemeteries in France where American World War dead are buried. I'm glad the matter was cleared up. Can you straighten out this rumor-did the U. S. pay rent for trenches occupied by American boys in France in 1918? Many people believe this is so. I'd like to know whether it is true...
...alleged German plan was to attack The Netherlands first, Belgium later-The Netherlands first because Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...simply a matter of keeping up with the Joneses. It is a question of help ing to keep the little Fuller Brush man out of the Joneses' kitchen for fear that he will soon get into everyone's front parlor...
...studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony, no believer in shillyshally, would have heartily approved: she took a hammer, smashed half her statuary, called in the press. To Painter Rockwell Kent's wired appeal that she stop her smashing she retorted: "That is a matter between myself...
...Daily Princetonian over the scanty attendance at the Bowl. The editors feel that soon even the Big Three will catch the Chicago disease, and either give up their amateurism or forget about big-time football. From Harvard's experience, there is no such "trend" in evidence. As a matter of fact, every Harvard game this fall has drawn a somewhat bigger crowd than the H.A.A. expected. Princeton may be having a lean year, but there is no widespread dissatisfaction among amateur football teams which could satisfy Nassau's prophecy of doom...