Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this in view, and all seemed set for its passage...
...secret police) arrested Rev. Martin Niemoller, onetime U-boat commander, took him to Moabit prison. Pastor Niemoller was no Marxist, no pacifist, no libertarian. He had, indeed, been an early supporter of Naziism, and the .bourgeoisie and old army families who made up his congregation accepted, broadly, a Nazi view of "the Jewish problem." But for Martin Niemoller, Naziism could go just so far. When "German Christians" sought to Nazify the Evangelical Church, when the Reich sought to apply the "Leader Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to the church's personnel, Pastor Niemoller spoke...
...imperial car drove slowly to give the peasants a good view. General Potiorek was pointing out some new barracks to the Archduke and his wife. The passengers did not see wild-eyed young Chabrinovitch take a small bomb from his pocket and knock off its cap against a post. But the chauffeur noticed and stepped on the gas. A small black object hurtled through the air, struck the rear of the car, fell spinning to the street. Then with a roar and a flash the bomb exploded. Several bystanders were injured. The Archduke's aide, riding in the third...
...Philadelphia symposium on "The Factors of Organic Evolution." He was then only 33 and rather bashful about appearing before his elders, but, being urged, he accepted. He was pitted in debate against a booming bigwig, Professor Edward Drinker Cope of University of Pennsylvania, who advanced the Lamarckian view that acquired characteristics (e.g., muscular development or manual skill) can be inherited. Conklin defended the opposite view, boldly stated that inherited characteristics are determined solely by the germ plasm. In the course of time biology gave him the palm over Bigwig Cope. Today almost all top-notch biologists have swept Lamarckism under...
OVERTURE TO DEATH-Ngaio Marsh-Furman ($2). Bizarre murder of a malevolent spinster, in full view of an English church-social audience, neatly solved, by Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn. A well-knit baffler, with colorful characterizations...