Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next? Most experts now agree that Joe Louis is the greatest fisticuffer of all time, predict that no one will beat him in the next two years-some say five, some say ten. Nevertheless, boxing managers are raking the country for a potential "white hope." Most promising youngsters discovered since last summer are a pair of Irishmen, Pat Comiskey and Billy Conn, and a Bohemian named Johnny Paychek (né Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy...
This provided 70% of the purchase price, about the same ratio as for standard railroad equipment trust certificates. Nevertheless, aviation equipment trust certificates have yet to rival railroad certificates as gilt-edged public investments: there was no public offering of last week's issue...
...Nevertheless, International's bright-eyed, nickel-grey-haired President Robert Crooks Stanley announced last month that Frood had begun open-pit mining. By last week, these new operations were fast approaching a fixed-quota yield of 4,000 tons of ore a day. This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood...
...Washington are blowing off steam and the nation's newspapers are obligingly headlining their sensational remarks, clearer heads are calmly reexamining the implications of America's new foreign policy. In this connection the Harvard petition asking removal of the embargo on Loyalist Spain, although ill-timed and misdirected, is nevertheless an indication of a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world...
...name of 'neutrality' our government is helping to snuff out the life of the Spanish Republic . . . The fall of Barcelona is due in part to an un-neutral policy pursued by the United States, While we refuse to sell arms to the elected government of Spain, we nevertheless impose no restrictions on such sales to Italy and Germany. Thus, unable to supply her men with the most elementary equipment, Barcelona had to succumb . . . to German and Italian arms . . . The interests of peace and sane international relations demand that the arms embargo be lifted...