Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special concern to me whether it be New York or Padooka-one fact is very obvious all about us-we as a nation are becoming extremely calloused, and as Damon Runyon so aptly put it in his column a few days ago, extremely sinful...
...stuck pins in it to keep the President up to the hour on the fighting. Black Sunday came, putting Great Britain and France formally into World War II. That evening Franklin Roosevelt went on the world's airwaves to state and define historically the U. S. position, to read his preface to a giant human tragedy from which the U. S. people could not possibly be entirely immune. Said...
...Chamberlain began, "I do not propose to say many words tonight." He said about 2,000. He spoke in a low voice, fiddled with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into...
...minority, but the sorest lot of all, are Poland's peasants. There are 20,000,000 of them, 5,000.000 of whom are continually unemployed. Few can read, some in Galicia do not know that the Emperor Franz Joseph is dead and that they are no longer Austrian subjects. To them salt is like gold dust, bread like caviar. But last week peasant boys were stolidly shuffling to mobilization centres, farmers were sending their only horses to bolster the country's cavalry-minded army...
...said, "As we expected"; a few shouted, "Long live Smigly-Rydz!" but most just read and walked on. Since most reserves had already been called up, the decree was only a signal: the button had been pressed...