Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Answers. Whoever inherits the empire, Baer and Wente make a logical team to work in harness under the brilliant, ailing Mario and his indestructible father. Baer, the consumer finance expert, is the perfect answer to A. P.'s booming small-loan business (the bank had 3,000,000 borrowers averaging loans of $300 apiece between 1935 and 1941). Wente has worked in a score of the small country and city banks that are now cashing in for A. P., knows farm, livestock and small .business problems. As his boss puts it, "he knows a lot more about banking than...
...biggest scapegoat was still the Anglo-Saxon enemy. To Allied promises to deal fairly with a non-Fascist Italy, the Duce replied: "Whoever believes in the enemy's suggestions is a criminal, a traitor and a bastard. . . . The enemy would disarm Italy down to her very sports guns. . . . Italy would become a geographical feature. . . . At this formidable juncture the Party must be the moving force of the nation's life...
Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...
...political conversation with the ghost of a Bolshevik. The Bolshevik was the late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged Sheean, if he could not fight, to write against "the whole system of organized injustice by which few govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness...
...correct your statement to the effect that I have taken an active stand "against Mussolini and Italy." Against Mussolini, yes. Against Italy, no. Mussolini is not Italy. Whoever during these last twenty years has had a share in the thankless task of fighting Mussolini while American bankers, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, university presidents, college professors, journalists and lecturers were praising him to the skies, did not stand against Italy but revindicated the rights and the honor of the Italian people against Mussolini and his brainless admirers...