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Word: whether (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Canadians are, ipso facto, whether they like it or not, British, and I assure you that the vast majority of them not only like it but are inordinately proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Intervention in Europe to prevent Hitler from directing his next blitzkrieg at the United States has a 'certain fascination for the man on the street," McKay attacked "this bogey of invasion" both from at technical and a political point of view and questioned whether "any one state will find itself sufficiently footloose to wage war in the Western hemisphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Interests Jeopardized it U. S. Intervenes in Europe's War, McKay Warns | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Finally McKay questions whether America could contribute to a just peace. She could scarcely lend her moral weight while "war aims of the Allies continue in their present obscurity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Interests Jeopardized it U. S. Intervenes in Europe's War, McKay Warns | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...stated: that they have proven their abilities as teachers and scholars, and that they are urgently needed by their departments at the present time. In the final analysis, flexibility should exist for no other reason than to provide a solution when one or both of these two situations exist. Whether or not the Administration will admit this remains to be seen in its actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

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