Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...high-powered Washington lobbyist, hotly dispute Mrs. Wilson's accounts that he 1) tried to get Wilson interested in the since exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat The Senator Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's longtime Washington Correspondent Jesse Frederick Essary, coolly observed: "History has marked Woodrow Wilson as a hero. The intimate story...
...London British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax perked up his ears, reminded General Franco that even though Britain had granted Franco Spain recognition, it had not granted belligerent rights. He announced to the House of Lords that "His Majesty's Government would regard as a very serious matter the sinking of a British merchant vessel even within territorial waters," that British warships had been instructed to "retaliate even inside territorial waters against any submarine taking such indefensible action...
...Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris for one of its best bassos, Ezio Pinza. Though Pinza was longer on voice than Chaliapin, and equal to him in build and makeup, critics agreed that the haunt still held...
...never a violent abolitionist, and many biographers claim that his proclamation of freedom during the Civil War was just a political move. I do think, however, that though he was not one of the violent pre war abolitionists that he really pitted the plight of the slaves and that he welcomed the chance to free them during...