Word: expecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members were interested in a blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...
This dramatic curtain was Adolf Hitler's pleasure, communicated by wireless. There was no apparent reason for it. Assuming that the Spee was in no condition to engage even the light British cruisers, Hitler had nothing to lose by allowing her to be interned-unless he expects to lose the war, he could expect to recover the interned ship when war is over. World War I had been lost when the Germans scuttled their fleet at Scapa Flow. If Hitler ordered the Spee scuttled merely that his enemies would never lay hands on her, World War II was already...
...Norman pirates, Porter Sargent is no Anglophobe, believes that "an Englishman, at his best, is the finest creature nature so far has produced, with the exception of a Chinaman at his best." But much as he loves Englishmen, he loves debunking more. Says he: "I don't expect ever to discover Truth, but I do believe that I can uncover un-Truth...
...Italy's resignation from the League because of sanctions voted during its Ethiopian campaign became effective early this week. Last week Italian Journalist Virginio Gayda, curiously enough, wrote that Finland had the "right to demand and expect sanctions" against Russia, but scornfully added: "The slave State of Ethiopia did not have that right, for it was guilty of 30 years' aggression against Italy as well as of the most brutal violations of civilized principles." †Switzerland has notified the League that meetings can be held on its territory only if the present war is not discussed...
...American people a heavy dose of war propaganda," and "Twenty-five thousand newspapers lied to their readers yesterday . . . . . the respectable New York Times showed them how to do it." But the accused hat! answered a month before in an editorial on September 6, saying, "We in this country must expect shortly to be deluged with propaganda, and some of that propaganda will be news. In such cased the Times propaganda will be news. In such cases the Times will see that it is properly described and labeled...