Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah-Hull-Roosevelt colloquy ended abruptly. Resignedly, Alben Barkley polled the Senators present on whether they thought there were votes enough in the Senate to give Mr. Roosevelt the kind of Neutrality he wants. All answered...
...fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...
Last week Secretary MacDonald again outraged the Zionists. Because of thousands of illegal immigrants, for a six-month period beginning next October no Jews will be permitted officially to enter Palestine. After that, resumption of immigration will "depend upon the circumstances prevailing"-i.e., upon whether the illegal immigration meanwhile stops...
Nobody has decided yet whether Pinky Smith is a young liberal who happens to be smart or a young smartpants who finds it convenient to appear liberal. But nobody denies that he has gone far in his 30 years and promises to go much farther. Twelve years ago he bummed his way across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge...
...Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...