Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viennese doubted then, as TIME does now, who won the victory that saved Europe. At the Te Deum celebration in the Vienna cathedral after the battle the preacher choe for his text: "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John...
...Federalists, with Washington as their dignified figurehead, grew cooler & cooler to France, wanted a treaty with England. They overrode Ambassador Genet's dangerous popularity with the U. S. crowd, forced his retirement. But when John Jay brought back from England his famed pusillanimous treaty, even Washington kept the text dark till he could be sure of getting it through Congress. Benny Bache spilled the beans: he got a copy of the treaty, printed it in his paper, loosed a storm of popular indignation...
...following is the full text of the agreement...
...objects to censorship by the Boston Police Department, where at least it is diverting; but in a university--a forum for minds--it is unthinkable. Yet censorship of a contemptibly petty stamp exists in this University. I refer to the use in certain language courses of texts in which the editors have seen fit to make deletions from the originals. Any one who has compared the authorized edition of Keller's "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" with the high school text now used in German 1a can appreciate how the editor of the latter has so subtly and judiciously...
...Heimwehr thank him and promise him their united support if he continues with the same energy toward the same goal." Little Dollfuss, knowing that he must have the support of the Great Powers for his new Constitution before he dare present it formally to Austria, popped the draft text into his pocket last week, hopped for Geneva to lay his plans before the representatives of Britain, France and Italy attending the League of Nations' 14th Assembly. If any further evidence was needed of the mounting power of Emil Fey, it came that day. Repeatedly in the past month good...