Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt may also have realized in part last week the extent of his political loss in the death of Howe. During the last year, for the sake of Louis Howe's touchy feelings, he did not refill Howe's official post as Secretary to the President. Now he has no man of Howe's political acumen with whom to fill it. To many an observer, the course of political events in the last year already shows the gap left by the loss of Howe...
Cruising in the West Indies in December 1934, Vera Stretz met Dr. Fritz Gebhardt. Miss Stretz, 30, had no occupation, enjoyed a small independent income. Dr. Gebhardt, 42, was vaguely connected with the German Nazi movement for the sake of his importing business. Each lived in Manhattan, where the cruise acquaintanceship was continued...
...Consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Surely you would not have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
...Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters...
...believed to have taken place six weeks ago instead of two as announced. Further, a large proportion of the press look upon the whole thing as a hoax, one rumor being spread that a New York reporter had bribed a student to commit the crime for the sake of publicity...