Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee had nothing whatsoever to do with any of the Liberty Loan drives except a protest against many of the "atrocity" posters gotten out by the people in charge...
...definite end to enterprises of violence and force which for two years, in contempt of the most solemn engagements, in violation of the pledged word, already have subjugated or destroyed three nations in Europe and threaten today the security of all. A lasting peace cannot be established except by reparation of the injustices that force imposed on Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. . . ." Führer Hitler was scheduled to make his reply this week, but it seemed unlikely that he would see his way to repairing the "injustices" toward the three countries listed by the French President...
...military furloughs were canceled. State of siege was extended to all towns and villages in the defense areas. All lighthouses and lightships except one were blacked out. Banks whipped their gold over to Amsterdam. Buses were requisitioned, trains held in readiness to evacuate civilians. Army reservists were called to duty. Some on such short notice that they reported for pillbox and blockhouse duty still in wooden shoes...
...settled policy of La Prensa never to comment on personalities: its editors hold that nothing matters except principles. These are the special concern of Sunday Editor Gollan. La Prensa's editorials, skipped by most readers, supposedly wield great power with the Government. When a significant editorial has to be written, even on a weekday, Don Ezequiel or his nephew usually calls in Sr. Gollan...
...taking the pulse of Broadway as the clue to its heart, a habit of always writing fashionable plays and never revolutionary ones. It proclaims a playwright who has made sport of everything while never giving offense to anybody. It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment, and that good entertainment pays...