Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reichstag, generally on January 30, the anniversary of the Nazis' coming to power, a long, serious "state-of-the-nation" speech. Six extraordinary sessions have been called. On one of those occasions in July 1934, the Führer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
...want you to tell all the Harvard boys to come to our show, and I want them all to come backstage...
Relative to your excellent article on Mrs. Roosevelt (TIME, April 17), can you tell me why the Boston Traveler (owned by the arch-Republican Boston Herald) published her column "My Day" only a few days three years ago and then discontinued it? No other Boston paper publishes it at the present time...
...President received members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for their annual "off the record" meeting, used the occasion to tell them frankly some of his official information about Europe...
History is at best violent, doubly so in such periods. Bombers over Shanghai and Guernica, refugees from Barcelona and Prague, tell stories whose raw horror blurs the minds of those who try to understand the causes of war. When philosophers, economists, historians try to penetrate the wild surface of events, to see the forces that have created them, their dry generalizations and statistics seem cold beside the living reality of the headlines. In different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have...