Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works under her as the Labor Committee's clerk. Last week Aunt Mary's big afternoon happened also to be Niece Marion's 28th birthday. Said she: "I just can't do any more work today." Although Mary Norton was equally elated she was nevertheless very much aware that her chef-d'oeuvre in Congress, the Wages-&-Hours Bill, was still far from enactment. Even if the House passes it, which it may well do this month, the Bill faces a battle in the Senate, hard sledding in conference and an-other vote in both...
...Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French fiscal experts believed Franklin Roosevelt would take this occasion to cheapen the dollar too, as he did four years...
...Spanish fathers had been killed, as the Vatican reported last year, at least 100 are known to be dead. To U. S. Jesuits this re-establishment seemed to disprove recent rumors that Spanish Jesuits were chafing under the Franco regime, mistrusting his Fascist allies. Nevertheless, such reports have been vouched for in France-where Catholic orders such as Jesuits and Dominicans are considerably more leftist than in the U. S., and where no less a prelate than Cardinal Verdier has advised Catholics not to take sides in the Spanish War. At a recent General Congregation in Rome-the first meeting...
Nearly as incredible as the legend of Robin Hood himself, the picaresque story of Errol Thomson Flynn's 29 years nevertheless boils clown to this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents...
...merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated the observation with a mysterious shapeless blob of shadow that could not by any stretch of the imagination be called a representation of a human being. Observers nevertheless agreed that the review as a whole gave a strong impression of what the book was all about, an even stronger impression that it would be a long time before television book reviewing became a common practice...