Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There does not seem to be much doubt that if U. S. relief were handled locally it could be done cheaper. The State Auditor of Ohio informed the President last week that 20% of the States relief expenditures were attributable to chiselers. He wanted a WPA appropriation to find them and kick them...
...House teams swing into the final round of intramural athletics today after a week's layoff for Divisionals, the Deacons seem to have things fairly well in hand, with the tennis championship cinched, the baseball crown practically so, and a 50-50 chance to cop the soft ball title. In golf Kirkland is in a triple tie for second...
Visiting bigwigs in Italy who do not seem sufficiently impressed with their surroundings are likely to receive from Mussolini a magnificent illustrated album on the accomplishments of Fascism, reputed to cost $100 a copy. To acquaint the world with the strong joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government...
...that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that it is now a dead letter. Wrote Governor Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr...
...orthodox Confucians Author Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...