Word: placed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although soon Republicans were making their denunciations retroactive, insisting that Russia should never have been recognized in the first place ("Why all this tenderness toward Russia?" asked Herbert Hoover) the almost unanimous U. S. condemnation of Russia made it unlikely that the diplomatic steps taken could become an issue of domestic politics...
...what was happening to youth and the Dies Committee. Trouble began long ago. If the whole U. S. is considered the great house of democracy, then Martin Dies has been like a newcomer who believes he has uncovered a terrific scandal in the family. Said he rudely: Why, the place is full of Communists. Liberals hush-hushed, feared a Red-hunt, kept saying Martin Dies had made a mistake-he should be after Fascists, not Communists. But when the Dies Committee began to talk about U. S. youth, found youth organizations mixed up with evil companions, hinted that youth...
Terrified, brooding, she resolved to free herself of him. The first time she aimed her old .38 revolver at him as he walked along the street, the gun wouldn't work. She took it to a gunsmith, had it fixed, waited for Coffman in a cafeteria. But the place was crowded. She was afraid someone else might get hit. Her third attempt was more successful. Even while she was talking, Coffman died in the hospital...
...statement of repudiation, issued by the Foreign Office press bureau, said that neither the assertions of the mouth place of world Communism nor the interpretations placed upon them abroad represent the Soviet Government's views...
...squad has been cut down to fifteen, and unfortunately there is no place to give seasoning to the men who had to be cut. There is no Jayvee team, and with its abolition last spring went its coach, Johnny Wood. The sacrifice in player talent has not been important but Fesler has his hands full with his enlarged Varsity squad every afternoon...