Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circumstances, now that the matter has been brought to your attention we naturally assume that you will wish to correct the erroneous impression given by your article...
...straight anti-Communist line. To him, it seemed essential that the U.S. should oppose Communist aggression wherever it threatened. The only criterion should be the ability of the U.S. to supply aid and the ability of the recipient to use it. Said he: "It doesn't matter whether Chiang is a benevolent despot-which he is-or a republican or a democrat. The fact is, the man has fought Communism all his life. He stood by us as an ally in the war when he might have accepted favorable peace terms from Japan...
...When the matter came to a vote, 164 Laborites were against the allowances, 100 more abstained, but the rest (122) joined the Tories in passing the government's figures...
...Roerich, who left Russia at the time of the Revolution, gets faint praise in the Soviet Encyclopedia (1944), though many Roerich paintings still hang in Russian museums. Says the Encyclopedia: "His art is very decorative. His subject matter is taken out of legends, and he treats it in a religio-mystical reactionary style...
...night in August 1936, a group of Spanish fascists went to a house in the old Moorish city of Granada and carried off the poet Lorca. What happened thereafter is still a matter of conjecture. He was never seen again. By some accounts the fascists took him to the village of Fuente-vaqueros, where he had been born 37 years before, and there at daybreak, when the first light was glittering on the tiles and window panes of Andalusia, shot him. He had written about this hour in his country...