Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand why, although the Duce never talked of foreign peoples and governments, but alluded solely to men, parties and sects, his speeches created such a great impression in France...
Next day State's Attorney John A. Swanson announced: "I have officially been given to understand that definite evidence will be made available for the grand jury in [the Lingle] murder." Before the week was out, police sleuths identified the pistol that killed Lingle as having been sold a few months ago to one Frank Foster, dapper member of the Capone "mob." Foster was missing from Chicago. A nationwide search began to find him, to ask him who may have used...
...quarter-century ago. But it is a fact that the newspapers, in their great pre-War circulation battles, notably between the Chicago Tribune and Hearst, circulation managers hired hard-boiled "wagon bosses," armed them and sent them forth to battle on the streets. The police were given to understand that these fights were private, above the law, even if men were killed (and some were killed). Greatest general of those circulation wars was Max Annenberg, first for Hearst, then for the Tribune (he is now Liberty's circulation generalissimo-TIME, July 29). Many a name then or later famed...
...dwell in any part of Italy they choose. Every day I receive petitions for pardon and one of them that I have just signed lies before me on my desk at this moment. When my daughter was engaged innumerable appeals of this kind were made, for, as you can understand, that was a period of sentimental excitement. I told my daughter, 'Everyone who makes a petition for clemency will be granted his request,' and that is actually what occurred. I do not like to talk much about these matters and do not often make them public...
Representative Louis F. McFadden, chairman of the House Committee on Banking & Currency, who fears all that he does not understand. "Endeavoring to keep the United States and its Federal Reserve system out of involvement in the reparation payments," he last week introduced a joint resolution into Congress: that the purchase of German Reparations bonds be prohibited to national banks, Federal Reserve Banks, and members of the Federal Reserve Bank system...