Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petrouchka, the puppet who came to life, had a counterpart in China last week. After months of adjusting the wires and setting the stage to dangle Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei before Chinese eyes, the Japanese were dismayed to see him wriggle a bit, stand up on his own legs, and come right out with some shockingly out-of-character statements...
...Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year-college or professional...
...onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland (see...
...Living Church] calls upon me to 'sever all relations' with those bright enough to understand what is going on, suggesting that I am falling for 'their essentially un-Christian propaganda.' Well, I think I know un-Christian propaganda when I see it and there is rather more of it, in this war as in the last, coming from Christian pulpits and editorial offices of Church papers than from Union Square...
Commonly considered a Communist-steered organization is the American League for Peace and Democracy (see p. 16), of which Bill Spofford is vice chairman, and another clergyman chairman: Methodist Dr. Harry Frederick Ward, Union Theological Seminary professor. At its latest meeting (held after the Moscow-Berlin Pact), the League condemned Nazi and Fascist aggression, finessed Russia. Last week, without condemning Russia, the League mousily proposed against it the same sort of U. S. war embargo it had loudly urged against Fascist aggressors...