Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What interested American readers most, however, was not the column but the fact that its conductor was a young woman who knew whereof she wrote-Mrs. William Mitchell Blair, 31, smart & sociable, whose husband is related to the formidable Chicago clans of McCormicks, Mitchells and Blairs...
...this kind [shortselling] are either prohibited or greatly curtailed or properly safeguarded. ... I have no doubt that one or more resolutions of this kind will be passed [by Congress]." Since President Hoover last week was conferring with many a financial leader, it was felt that Senator Watson knew whereof he spoke...
...There is no intermediary," he said, "more powerful than Religion (whereof the Church is the interpreter and guardian) in drawing the rich and the working class together, by reminding each of its duties to the other, and especially of the obligations of justice." He recognized the occasional justification for strikes, the necessity for labor unions and decent wage standards, but he made clear that Mother Church could go no further. "As for those who possess not the gifts of fortune," he said, "they are taught by the Church that in God's sight poverty is no disgrace, and that...
...Author. Pearl S. Buck (Mrs. J. Lossing Buck), daughter of U. S. missionaries, has lived so long in China that she ought to know whereof she writes, but The Good Earth, except for minor details, might have been laid in the U. S., in any agricultural country. This may mean that men are the same everywhere; it may mean a U. S. authoress cannot (even imaginatively) go native in China...
...that should be read. The Cross Bearers is one to read. Though far from being a record of unrelieved horrors, it shows war's seamiest side, and with open seams. It is a story of a German medical corps. Author Frey. onetime stretcher -bearer, Red -Cross-wearer, knows whereof he writes...