Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel they had never seen before and scarcely dared hope to see again. The questions then begin...
...Niemoller supported it with such enthusiasm that he is believed by many Germans to have been for a time an enrolled member of the Nazi Party. When, however, he saw that Adolf Hitler intended to dominate the Church, Pastor Niemoller began preaching about the Nazis very much as though they were ships he wanted to torpedo. As he had fought for the Kaiser, he now fought for the Church, and in Berlin most churchmen agree today that but for Niemoller most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months...
...bill which originated in the Senate, was passed into law by the Chamber. It did not give French women the vote, did cancel at one stroke the network of laws under which a French wife has been almost as much under her husband's authority as though she were a minor child, unable to sign a check without his countersignature, helpless to make a will or contract without his express approval, unable to leave France or appear on the stage in France should he forbid...
...Carol II proclaimed: "In these stern times only heroic measures can save Rumania. ... I am determined to save it by the single thought of the Fatherland's needs! . . . Along this path we must advance. God help us! Long live Rumania!" The Peasant Party's Dr. Maniu, even though no Rumanian paper could print his words, denounced King Carol for having "assembled a conglomeration of persons . . . which will cover the real executives of the King's will. ... It is a Dictatorship which frankly says it will disregard both the Constitution and Democracy...
...Though the originality of his early compositions drew high praise from Critic Romain Holland (Jean-Christophe). it was not until he was 35 that Bloch got into his stride as a composer of distinctly Jewish music, began to color his music with scales and intervals derived from ancient synagogal hymns. In 1916 a tour as conductor of a dance troupe took him to the U. S., stranded him in Manhattan. Since then he has made the U. S. his home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute...