Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring, to the embarrassment of the State Department, Secretary Ickes refused to permit the export of a promised shipment of helium* for use in German dirigibles. As this act was recalled to Nazi minds last month by the reshipment of 200 empty steel bottles from Houston, Texas to Germany, Secretary Ickes bobbed up again with a speech before the Cleveland Zionist Society. Title: "Esau, the Hairy Man." Excerpts...
...people of the U. S. have the right and power to enforce morality and justice in accordance with peace treaties with us. And they will. Our Government does not have to use military force and will not unless necessary...
...Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money to fight his own people...
...cynical you are, rumpot, and why you became so Give us instead, if you must, something that we can use, like a telephone number...
...busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment, but as a code in which to express its unregarded beauties...