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...latter supposition seems much more probable. And in that case your comparison to Homer is still in all likelihood correct, for he only put into verse the older legends which he had heard...
...likelihood will bring clown upon the White House and on the State Department the same tariff lobby which, like a swarm of locusts, has plagued the Capitol for generations...
...before adjournment unless the Rules Committee gave it a favored status. To force the Rules Committee to do so would require another petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred, the advocates of the bill, led by Michigan's McLeod who called the ruse "one of the rawest things I've ever heard of," completed their petition, hoped to force its consideration in spite of the trick played on them. They even circulated for signature...
Should the Temporary Employment Plan, now financed at the rate of $40,000 a year, be carried on into 1934-35, there is every likelihood that it will be conducted on a scale considerably closer to $10,000 than to $40,000 unless President Conant's plan is a success...
Where do the Nazis and their long-touted anschluss enter the picture? While Hitler has repeatedly persecuted German socialists, there is strong likelihood that many of the Austrian socialists will turn to the Swastika against Dollfuss. If Austrian Nazism gains a working majority in Austria, if Dollfuss can be overthrown, the anschluss is a foregone conclusion. Foreign armed intervention in such a case would be made considerably more difficult in this case than if Germany forced the anschluss by a repetition of 1866. Even in such an exigency, however, it is dubious, as Professor Langer says, if the people...