Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget Director is whooping it up again about the Burden of Government Extravagance falling upon the Middle Class Taxpayer. Perhaps Mr. Douglas will one day understand that the government's budget is not like the budget of an individual or a corporation; that the government controls the printing office and can therefore use it if it sees fit, whether under the camouflage of an unbalanced budget or under no camouflage...
...foregoing statements are not only false, but like half-truths are infinitely more harmful than if they were barefaced shameless falsehoods. They are beneath the level and dignity of any high-class journal or publication. Your gullibility in swallowing these accusations, hook, line and sinker, is unthinkable. I cannot understand how any self-respecting reporter, however careless or incompetent, could fail to ascertain the facts before putting such a story in print. It appears that this article must have been inspired from other sources, as it would be difficult to impute to your publication such a total absence...
...understand the Roosevelt plan. "Nor does Mr. Roosevelt. "So please don't ask me to explain it. "Ask the Brainstorm Trust...
Professor Buell complimented the Administration on its handling of the situation so far. "Roosevelt," the Professor said, "is perhaps the first president to understand the relation between Cuba's political unrest and her economic situation." The speaker called Ambassador Sumner Welles '13, one of "the ablest men in our diplomatic service...
...following reply from Alice B. Toklas (Miss Stein's companion-secretary): "The device rose is a rose is a rose is a rose means just that. Miss Stein is unfortunately too busy herself to be able to tell you herself, but trusts that you will eventually come to understand that each and every word that she writes means exactly what she says, for she says very exactly what she means, and really nothing more, but of course nothing less...