Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four months ago that verdict might have had the immediate political effect of winning Tom Dewey New York's Governorship. Last week its political effect was longterm, for Mr. Dewey a vital safety play rather than a touchdown. For old Jimmy Hines, whose attorney, hard-boiled Lloyd Paul Stryker, burst into tears, it meant a possible prison sentence of 25 years unless he appeals successfully...
...Foreign Minister he had been personally schooled in what the Marshal thought the "principles" of Polish foreign policy should be. On his deathbed Marshal Pilsudski received only one of his ministers, Colonel Beck. And since young Poland's survival must inevitably depend upon how well her foreign rather than her domestic affairs are conducted, it was Colonel Beck who became the "guardian of Pilsudski's testament"-an unwritten but nevertheless precise outline of Polish foreign policy-and hence the key figure in Polish if not Eastern European politics...
This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...
...this terrific haul was Ski-enthusiast Walter Heil, Director of the de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (an art gallery full of Rodins in Lincoln Park). Rumor in San Francisco was that the Fascist Government authorized the loan to San Francisco rather than New York City because Mussolini was in a pet about New York's Mayor LaGuardia. More likely story: having spent her full fair quota on a pavilion at the New York Fair, Italy had nothing but art to send to San Francisco...
...most of the scientific theories in the field of the social sciences are critical in regard to the totalitarian theory and practice a dissipation of such sound theories among the Totalitarianists can only be beneficial. They may learn some common sense in this way. For this reason I would rather welcome and invite all the Totalitarianists to listen to to read, and to study the sound social science theories as much as they can. P. A. Sorokin...