Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also touched on taxes. It was deliberate distortion, he said, for Administration critics to say that Federal taxes are heavier than they were two, three, five years...
...Chvalkovsky has busied himself getting on the best personal terms with Herr Hitler and with Signor Mussolini, who is said to have once sent him this message in Rome: "Come over and see me, I am tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter...
...sent to every graduate of the Harvard Medical School by "The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy." The letter consisted of an appeal to contribute money as a tribute to Dr. Walter B. Cannon to be given to Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the so-called Spanish, republic. It says, 'we hope that you will want to share in this tribute to an eminent doctor and statesman, in honor of a beloved American colleague and champion of democracy'. I wish to protest against this, and to say that every well-informed person knows that this so-called Spanish Republic...
Asked what kind of person Adolf Hitler was in the War, Albert Patrich, a Little Falls, Minn, farmer who was his Wartime sergeant, replied: "He was just a corporal, what could he say or do? Eight men were under him, that's all. ... I had 40 men under me. I had to give orders to him but he never talked much...
...straightway critics raise a hue because his hurricane is a pale imitation of the one Joseph Conrad described 35 years ago in Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage...