Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native of Holland and an admirer of the British people, the fairest and most courageous in the world today-they do not hide behind Neutrality Laws like your terrified country does-I would take this opportunity to tell you that your statement is scurrilous and unjust...
Just now Major Fletcher's "staff" consists chiefly of the workers who come under the Act. A. F. of L. and C. I. O. have set up offices in Washington to clear complaints, take utmost advantage of the fact that organized employes are in a better position than unorganized workers to make their employers toe the line...
...save Ernst vom Rath. He died in a coma without being able to understand a message from the Führer promoting him to First Class Embassy Counselor. The assassin, Herschel Grynszpan, meanwhile told his French jailers: "Being a Jew is not a crime. . . . I hoped President Roosevelt would take pity on us refugees. . . . I am not a dog. I didn't mean to kill. I lost my head...
...Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, nor can they silence the brave Innitzer [Archbishop of Vienna]. . . . No decent person can condone the actions of the madman Hitler and the cripple-minded Goebbels. . . . If Hitler does not like what I say about him and his cripple-minded Minister of Propaganda, let him take up the matter with Secretary of State Hull...
...preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon Jouhaux promptly indicated a feeling that such measures probably are today the sole means of making France strong enough to hold her ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor, for M. Reynaud imposed special taxes to milk French employers...