Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would be willing to fill any gaps in the patrol-a suggestion which Der Führer and II Duce angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly praised by German papers. "I must say I think...
...accepts only what is authoritatively published here and only what has admittedly happened, two conclusions suggest themselves-either the Government and the Communist Party leadership, which in reality are identical, have staged a frame-up on a gigantic scale or there exists a situation of discontent, unrest and active disloyalty in the Stalin regime amounting almost, if not fully, to a counterrevolution...
...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...
...during that period. A painstaking job, Anatole France is a scholarly juggling of biography and criticism aimed at separating the tangle of legends (including many an anecdote told by Anatole France's secretary Jean-Jacques Brousson) and the blind-man-&-the-elephant judgments of fellow-writers. Except to suggest that France lived 28 years too long, Author Dargan believes the younger critics have carried literary hygiene...
With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...