Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah-Hull-Roosevelt colloquy ended abruptly. Resignedly, Alben Barkley polled the Senators present on whether they thought there were votes enough in the Senate to give Mr. Roosevelt the kind of Neutrality he wants. All answered...
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain publicly abandoned his policy of appeasing the dictators last March many political opponents doubted that the spattered British lion could so quickly change his spots. Last week they thought they had a few facts to confirm these doubts...
...Parliament Prime Minister Chamberlain denied that this was a change in policy. He declared emphatically that future discussions "will be confined to local issues at Tientsin" and Britain would not abandon her support of Chinese currency or right to grant credits to China. Again the Japanese thought otherwise...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...
...onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset "all the unfavorable publicity that marriage is getting in the world's divorce courts...