Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull began by rebutting Columnist Pearson on the ground that though Germany might be violating the peace treaty by importing arms, the U. S. was not violating it by selling them to her. This left open the point of whether or not the shipments were still "in violation" of a treaty to which the U. S. was a party. Obviously, it would never do for the Secretary of State to admit that his Government, in however small a detail, * had actually committed a technical breach of a treaty, and Mr. Hull did not do so. Instead, he launched into...
...that his lieutenant governor had just been indicted for embezzlement and might therefore have been ousted if he succeeded Berry as Governor, before he could appoint him (Berry) or anyone else to the Senate. Mr. Berry judiciously appointed Herbert Hitchcock, the State's Democratic Committee Chairman, who accepted though he modestly insisted that "100% of South Dakota's Democrats want Berry for Senator." A year in Washington caused Mr. Hitchcock's modesty to be replaced by an aggressive desire not to go home. Last week, he was running for the nomination to succeed himself against Mr. Berry...
...Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people, were so terrified by science that they confessed enthusiastically...
Coach Bill Neufeld warned the Harvard Freshman team at a meeting in the Varsity Club last night their duel with the Yale Freshmen will not be the pushover it was last year. Though the Crimson first year team is of better than average brilliance, it lacks the depth of strength to assure second and third places...
Cooperation with the government is indeed of fundamental importance, though the vicissitudes of politics should have absolutely no control over the plan of study. The middle course necessarily will be more difficult to follow while criticism will rage continually on all sides. But such problems the Littauer School will have to face with farsightedness and efficiency, if it expects to travel far on the road to better government...