Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest...
Mr. Welles's word "temporary" neatly conveyed Mr. Roosevelt's wishful conviction that Herr Hitler's ultimate downfall is sure. The statement as a whole was preliminary notice, to be more thoroughly and forcefully worded this week, that the U. S. did not and would not soon...
Exuberant "Ronnie" Knox, son of the late Anglican Bishop of Manchester, brother of Editor Edmund George Valpy ("Evoe") Knox of Punch, has been a man of letters since he wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. Brought up an Anglican, he took holy orders soon after leaving Oxford's...
Among nationally prominent people who may join the sessions are Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune; Sumner Welles and Francis B. Sayre of the State Department; Edsel Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, representing the automobile industry; Admiral Land, of the Maritime Commission; Walter Lippmann; Matthew Woll, labor...
Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word...