Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remember most unhappily," wrote John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week, "the protracted tax litigation between my father and the village of North Tarrytown, N. Y. Although it resulted in his favor, it left my father a feeling of hurt and injury that I think never quite disappeared." Whether or not he expected to end feeling hurt or injured, Mr. Rockefeller six years ago took court action to have the 1934 assessed valuation ($2,619, 890) on his North Tarrytown property, including a corner of his vast Pocantico Hills estate reduced...
Adolf to Neville & Edouard. Actual nub of the Hitler speech was an effort to undermine Allied morale by representing Poland as a Humpty Dumpty which just-cannot be put together again and by asking the Allies, who entered World War II avowedly to assist now crushed Poland, whether it is reasonable to fight on because they find Hitlerism intolerable...
Partition Rumania? Still open was the question whether J. Stalin is minded to join A. Hitler in partitioning Rumania at leisure. Well King Carol knows that after the vast province of Bessarabia was carved out of Russia at the end of World War I and given to Rumania, two Great Powers refused to recognize this Allied Deal, namely the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. President Wilson thought the deal too raw because Russia was not represented at the Peace Conference. Bessarabia consists of 17,000 square miles of marshland, forests and rich black earth inhabited by some...
...true, the report constituted an amazing piece of research. Whether true or not, it constituted a terrific piece of propaganda, not only as showing the Nazi chiefs prepared to run, but because hoarding money outside Germany is a crime in Germany, punishable by death. Sure to be whispered inside Germany, its effects may easily be serious...
...citizens who wanted to get to Europe had to unravel cat's-cradles of red tape. First requirement : a revalidated passport, good for six months at the most. These Secretary of State Hull extended only after probing the applicant's business abroad, deciding whether it was "essential." Those approved were mostly newsmen, international bigwigs, Government agents...