Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That statement, though it expressed only an obvious truism about a remote contingency, did indeed cause chatter abroad. Britain and France loudly applauded the acknowledgment of a "Washington-London-Paris" axis. Germany officially laughed it off as electioneering talk by Mr. Roosevelt. Italy sneered at the idea of a Canadian invasion "by whom...
...back-platform talk at Greenville last fortnight. Franklin Roosevelt had given the trio a last-minute "issue": whether or not a man can live in South Carolina on 50? a day. It came from a Senate speech made by Mr. Smith last year (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937). Last week Mr. Smith was angrily explaining that the President had been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue...
...what a sad disappointment Was that endured by the British Government . . . On the tenth of December we heard the talk...
...other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective...
...NAZI PRIMER-translated by Harwood L. Childs-Harper ($1.75). Anthropology, history and politics for the 7,000,000 members of the Hitlerjugend. Aryans are tall, blond, truthful, uncommonly gifted mentally and they do not talk too loud; Jews, Marxists, Free Masons and Christians should be kept well in hand for their own good...