Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procedure should be properly considered, instead of in hotel rooms. . . . What is it reasonable for Russia to expect? She naturally wants to assure herself before applying for membership that she is not going to have the humiliation of having her application rejected. That is a thing that we can understand, that our peoples can understand, and that we can understand in this Assembly as well as in some hotel room! That being so why not state it openly here...
...Sept. 10, would surely indicate that Director Eugene L. Vidal of the Department of Commerce in calling for bids on 25 new planes for his inspectors, had hoped to pull out of the hat a plane for the public to sell for $700, and had failed. In order to understand . . . the entire project, it is necessary to consider the following facts...
...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat naíve henchmen then revealed a fact?utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...
Extremely proud of the new Nazi "People's Court" for trying treason cases is its twinkly-eyed President, genial Dr. Fritz Rehn. From the Court foreign correspondents are barred. "They don't understand!" tolerantly exclaims Dr. Rehn, who last week was happy to have as his guest a prominent U. S. attorney who would surely understand. With Nazi guards clicking out salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice...
...Well, it has never brought me bad luck. I think my life is charmed in that respect. But I had a friend on the Carinthia, the ship in which I made the North Cape cruise, and he held the diamond in his pocket for two hours and now I understand he's lying at death's door...