Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness Bridges demonstrated that whether he is a Communist or not is important primarily because it will determine whether U. S. citizens who own property and hire labor can be rid of Harry Bridges, trade unionist. The quality which made him tick as precisely and dangerously as a bomb-clock did not come from Marx. It was simple, deep and active discontent-with things as he found them during his boyhood Down Under in Australia, with the U. S. as he found it when he sailed through the Golden Gate on a freighter...
...This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio...
...curious broker business. Germany needed French carbide-cyanamide for saltpeter, French bauxite for aluminum; France needed German iron and steel for emergency railroad tracks and barbed wire entanglements. Swiss dummies arranged the exchange of these commodities, with the tacit consent of the belligerents. The governments did not care whether German soldiers died on barbed wire that originated in a German factory, or whether British ships were torpedoed by German submarines made, in part, of aluminum from French bauxite, so long as the war was fought to a finish...
...even the University of Washington's Professor of Zoology Melville Harrison Hatch knew whether the Seattle firefly colony would survive, perhaps spread to other West Coast areas. They will keep on hatching and flashing for a few weeks, mate, lay eggs and die. Then it is up to the eggs...
...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...