Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
...becomes acting president of the college. Bob Jones Sr. writes a syndicated column for 200 southern newspapers, gets out a weekly called Fellowship News. No hellfire evangelist, "Dr. Bob" is zealous, says proudly: "We don't hire any teacher who believes in Evolution. We tell students about Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, but we also tell them that evolution isn't science, it's guesswork...
Dean Plimpton and his associates are determined to provide as many useful services as they can. They are not, of course, able to hand out jobs on a silver platter to complacent seniors. Nor are they able to tell a man who suddenly decided that he "wants a job" exactly what it is he desires, although they spend many patient hours in the attempt...
...year. "You make me impatient when you talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk as if it existed or could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production, as if we were still living in the 19th Century world of individual enterprise! I tell you Democracy is only a mask for Capitalism, which clings desperately to the outmoded forms that allowed it free play. "The era of Capitalism is over! Here in Italy it is finished, it is dead.* If by democracy you mean government for and in the interests of the people then...
Main sources of the 3,500,000 tons of newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough...