Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tall tree toppled by New Deal axmen in 1932 was lugubrious, bony, prophetic Reed Smoot, Utah Senator since 1903. Except for an occasional cussing-out as author of the Smoot-Hawley tariff, Latter-Day-Saint Apostle Smoot was promptly forgotten by a busy U. S., and his dismal prophecies with him. Last week thoughtful newsmen realized that at least two of gloomy Oldster Smoot's melancholy forecasts were being realized...
Punjah Leader Gopal Singh Himh tried to ride the Mahatma off by an attack on his behind-the-scenes tactics. "Everyone," he charged, "is ready for action except Gandhi. I demand that Gandhi become at least a four-annas member of Congress [cheapest price of membership]. ... If he wishes to lead Congress he should at least be a member...
About Mary there were no clues except that she needs her bottom scraped and cannot get through the Panama Canal. Chances were Canada had some men & munitions to be carried before another Australian contingent would be ready or needed, so Halifax seemed a likely spot to send the swift* Mary first. Germany might be launching another U-boat wave (see col. 1), but nothing last week would have better suited the fighting British heart, as well as Mr. Chamberlain's political necessities, than a gesture of defiance...
Willmott Harsant Lewis, born in Cardiff, Wales, went to China in 1899, covered the Boxer Rebellion. He has never returned to Britain except on brief visits. For George Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, Bill Lewis covered the Russo-Japanese War. He worked for Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, spent seven years as editor of the Manila Times...
...breezy drive and honest insight into immediate realities, Chamberlain does not plumb certain problems: how the U. S. can be sure of security in this hemisphere without some form of imperialist policy towards Latin America, how U. S.industrial production is to be increased except by a vague hope for some new "prime mover" such as the railroads once were...