Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whether the Charlie Ross referred to was the famed kidnapped Philadelphia boy or a mutual acquaintance who could write imaginative reports, D. N. B. did not venture to explain. Bill Bullitt flatly denied that such a conversation had ever taken place. He admitted talking to Biddle that day over a bad connection, to get "specific and complete statements" about German bombardments in Poland, and that was all there was to it, except for Nazi "inventions...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in the doghouse. He apparently had a chance to subside into the War Department's No. 2 position, no discernible chance to replace Harry Woodring when & if the President finds a satisfactory successor. Attorney General Frank Murphy was offered the War portfolio, turned it down. An oft-mentioned possibility...
...General Marshall's army last week passed its 150th birthday, despite its feuding civilians marched right on with Rearmament. *Asked whether he supplied this piece of ammunition to his friend Mr. Woodring, Columnist-Commentator Boake Carter said: "The safest answer...
...gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which would oust II Duce from his job if he went to war on Germany's side. What was significant about this tidbit was not so much whether it had a basis of fact, but that it could get around...
...issue was whether or not the Administration was correct in the methods it used in applying a new policy of Faculty tenure, and it was further inquired if that policy itself was right. The application occurred so suddenly, during the examination period last June, that few students realized that ten assistant professors, bearers of the main load of undergraduate teaching, had been lopped off. President Conant explained at the time that he was putting into effect the recommendations for increased security of the Faculty committee on tenure, but his critics pointed out that the committee foresaw no such immediate action...