Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education, this privilege, extended to teachers like Dean Landis and to Granville Hicks as a historian, is worth a great deal of ignorant and temporary malignment. But complete political freedom for its teachers is becoming increasingly embarrassing for this University, which must thus smile condoningly on all doctrines--no matter what "ism" is represented. After the lesson in public relations it has been taught in the last few weeks, Harvard might now find it expedient to demand some greater measure of tact, timeliness, and sober consideration from its representatives in political matters. It is not a gag which is necessary...
Communists and Fascists they matter...
...Hitler "can" was completely unofficial. Officially the Führer sent Dr. Chvalkovsky and Dr. Daranyi back by air to Prague and Budapest with the advice that their Governments must settle the matter by negotiation. Meanwhile, 500,000 Czechoslovak soldiers faced 500,000 Hungarians, and in one potato field the trenches were less than 85 yards apart...
...open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black dog!" during a furious speech by Nazi Commissioner Josef Bürckel. Calling the Cardinal a friend of Jews, burly Herr Bürckel declared that negotiations with the Catholics to settle the matter of religious schools and seminaries-hitherto kept secret-were definitely off. Cardinal Innitzer switched off his radio, retired to his chapel to pray...
...Susanna and the Elders, a Western version of a sultry incident from the Old Testament.* Composed in forthright Artist Benton's usual robustious arabesques, it gave a timeless answer to critics who have chided "U.S. Scene" painters with an inability to work nudes into their hayseed subject matter...