Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband. "It seems clear to me," the President keynoted, perhaps with oblique reference to Japan and Germany, "that it is only through constant education and the stressing of the ideals of Peace that those who still seek imperialism can be brought into line with the majority." ¶ In spite of pleas by the National Retail Dry Goods Association to move Thanksgiving up a week so that the Christmas shopping period might be lengthened. President Roosevelt announced that, as usual, the holiday would be observed the last Thursday in November. His own Thanksgiving bird was picked for him at the Chicago...
...unless they have confidence in the value of the dollar. The implication of the offering was obvious: radical currency inflation has been put off at least until April 15. Paper Panic. Many a sound money man breathed easier. No confidence have financiers in "controlled" inflation of the currency. In spite of the dollar being off gold and selling at 60-odd in international exchange, the dollar is still a dollar to John Citizen, is still backed by perfectly sound government credit. Yet let the printing presses once start pouring out dollar bills, and some morning John Citizen would suddenly realize...
...best Sir Josiah could say of U. S. prospects was that "the United States may succeed, in spite of herself, because of her youth and vigor...
...spite of this, Mr. Hitler was willing to accept from the League any concession, however small, which would have made his position tenable to the anti-League agitators in Berlin. Fortifications on the Russian border, and rehabilitation of a few dismantled fortresses, would have admittedly have satisfied him; but Sir John Simon, seemingly unimaginative, withheld his cooperation, and withdrawal was the Nazi alternative. Perhaps Sir John, and Mr. Henderson, were justified in their refusal, but it is difficult to condone their flat opposition to Mussolini's compromise...
...spite of the general report that there is an over-supply of teachers, it must be admitted this does not pertain to teachers properly prepared," stated Dr. Smith. "Although there are many well-prepared, experienced teachers out of jobs, they are rapidly being hired in preference to the poorly-prepared inexperienced person...