Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull began by rebutting Columnist Pearson on the ground that though Germany might be violating the peace treaty by importing arms, the U. S. was not violating it by selling them to her. This left open the point of whether or not the shipments were still "in violation" of a treaty to which the U. S. was a party. Obviously, it would never do for the Secretary of State to admit that his Government, in however small a detail, * had actually committed a technical breach of a treaty, and Mr. Hull did not do so. Instead, he launched into...
...efforts of the State to get a confession by less scientific methods were unending. Earl at one point was put in solitary confinement for a year. A year ago State Patrol Sergeant Joseph McCauley disguised himself as a clergyman and went to see Mary. After a few visits he got her to thinking along religious lines and finally last week, five days before her sentence was up, she decided "to make herself right with her Maker." And Earl, she said, had not only killed James Bassett. When he was younger, in Montana, he had killed three other people...
...Italian victory." The King has always acted so as to give fullest scope to the energy and talents of II Duce, who has always acted with the greatest respect for Vittorio Emanuele III. Not long ago a Fascist official told of having suggested on a certain point that the Premier simply ring up the King by telephone, told of Il Duce's reproving reply: "Such lack of respect is not to be shown His Majesty! Audience must always be sought in advance." Last week Italy's reigning King-Emperor and her ruling Dictator joined in visibly correcting what...
...airport. On one side of this half-mile-square field naval cadets dressed & undressed a full-rigged ship (dummy). Fascist youths 50,000 strong, from 6-year-old Sons of the Wolf to 18-year-old Young Fascists, drilled to the music of 2,600 trumpets which at one point blew the Wedding March from Lohengrin. This caused irrepressible Italians to crack of the Dictators: "Are they exchanging wedding rings...
...project of Cuba's Army Strongman, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have...