Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week the Senate got ready to shift its burden to the House. Its own show was running...
...came up and it was so close that we could see men smoking in the turret. It looked as though we were looking right into the mouth of its gun. But when he fired, the shot fell a few yards short of us. ... We fired about eight shots at long intervals. Couldn't do more because we couldn...
Rains continued, the rivers rose and though evidence of continued German concentration was reported by reconnaissance, the Western Front appeared due for another long lull while the war of blockades was intensified over the North...
...Pedro, Calif.; and 29 scouting vessels were newly based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The U. S. was considering helping China and herself by buying enough tungsten for ten years of war. Filipinos and interested Americans agitated for revision of the Philippine Independence Act on the ground that though battleships might have a hard time defending the islands from the Japanese, the U. S. flag defends them just by waving. "Fellow Americans" was what new Philippine High Commissioner Francis Sayre significantly called 15,000,000 Little Brown Brothers in his inaugural speech...
...leaders of the nation must settle down to the ordinary, day-by-day brand of neutrality. The decisions that will have to be made may not be as spectacular as the arms embargo repeal, but they will be of enormous cumulative effect. Negotiations with belligerents over our neutral rights, though they may be countless in number and picayune in detail, nevertheless set up precedents by which great decisions are made. It is essential that they be backed by a strong and consistent general policy. Likewise, the handling of our war trade with the belligerents is a herculcan job that...