Word: tacitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt last summer attempted a Purge within his own party, it was a tacit declaration that for worthy adversaries he had to look to recalcitrant members of his own party. Wishfully foreseeing the dissolution of the G.O.P., he frankly invited the U. S. electorate to form two new parties which he named Liberal and Conservative. In his Liberal party he wanted Labor and the Farmers as well as underprivileged Forgotten Men. Last week's election was the first national test of this projected grand sashay...
Thus closed the first of Franklin Roosevelt's major "Purge" primaries, on a note seemingly far removed from national issues. But by his "white supremacy" speeches Senator Smith reminded Southern Democrats of Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for Northern Negroes, his tacit approval of the Anti-Lynching bill. And the red shirts worn that night were in celebration of another repulse of the carpetbaggers. Instead of being purged...
...this tacit invitation to Sudeten Germans to provoke an incident, the British Foreign Office issued an exceptionally stiff press communiqué saying that His Majesty's Government "welcome the conciliatory attitude displayed by the Czechoslovak Government," have hoped for a "constructive response" from the Sudeten Germans, and that "the issue by the Sudeten German Party of a proclamation relaxing the admirable discipline hitherto observed by the Sudeten Germans is therefore much deplored...
...visit him at Pebble Beach, Calif., where the grey-haired little comedian has his summer house. One day last week Miss Goddard went out to play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact-that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*-the talkative cinemactor once more re fused to discuss "our personal affairs." Neither would "Mrs. Chaplin...
...noncooperation with France. Throughout much of the Arab world - from Asia Minor to Aden, from Tigris to Nile - there was dismay over this latest of a long list of betrayals by the Big Powers. For Turkey, former master of the Arabs, was clearly about to gain, with the tacit consent of the French, a valuable economic key to Arab nations...