Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest cinematic March of Time is an excellent sop to U. S. ignorance of Mexican affairs. Even U. S. Catholics, if they are candid, will admit that ecclesiastical control in Mexico has not been an unmixed blessing. The disestablishment of a church is a painful process in any country but is that any reason for presenting only the most lurid details, without any attempt at historical analysis? Give the Revolutionary Government of Mexico...
...Sop. "Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a trivial sop. U. S. producers nowadays turn out only about 26,000.000 oz. of silver a year and their bonus from the price increase will be less than...
...sop to Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
Health Insurance. Because the medical profession has kicked up such sand, President Roosevelt sidestepped the question of health insurance. As a sop he proposed to distribute to the States the following sums for the following purposes...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...