Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virtual carte blanche from France, with Britain's implied approval, to go as far as Il Duce likes in encroaching upon Abyssinia from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland...
...ignore, others goad us into angry replies and still others call forth reasoned explanations. All three reactions presented themselves to us when we read Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins' attack yesterday against the colleges that turned down Federal "subsidization" of students, an attack that was a virtual accusation of snobbery. The University authorities have chosen the first answer, silence; a few days ago we presented what seemed to us to be Yale's theory on the matter; now, stung a little by this most unpleasant of charges, we are tempted by the eye-for-an-eye outlet. We shall...
...Communists and Socialists flayed the Premier's program as virtual laissez faire. "Better have President Roosevelt!" shrilled a Pink deputy. "He is not afraid to tackle economic problems for the benefit of the masses...
...forgotten to endorse Democratic Senator Copeland, also standing for re-election in New York. For answer the President smilingly remarked that the reporters would be surprised to know how often he had voted a split ticket. By the time Franklin Roosevelt reached Hyde Park, the news of his virtual repudiation of Dr. Copeland was in the papers. Immediate conjecture was that the President had thrown the New York Senator down because of his poor rating as a New Deal supporter. Hastily Secretary Marvin McIntyre assured the Press that the President would also vote for Senator Copeland...
Meanwhile Prince Caetani's brothers were betraying their heritage, selling off the lands of their father, the late Duke Onorato, which comprised by far the largest estate in Italy, a virtual principality within the realm. Only bachelor Prince Gelasio, with no child to whom he could leave his share of the Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept...