Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Prisoner. In Washington, D.C., John Cyril Krafka, arrested for burglary, blamed it all on last fall's elections: "I bet $4,000 on Dewey and I had to get the money somehow...
...Japanese who must put forth this supreme effort, however, have first to conquer their national schizophrenia, to achieve a union between the descendants of Hideyoshi and Ieyasu. Osaka and Nagoya must somehow be put together if Japan is to survive...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
...Canada last week the more optimistic government leaders were certain that Alberta's dilemma would be resolved somehow. For one thing, the problem was closely tied to Canada's dollar-shortage problem: crude-oil imports ($200 million last year) were third on the list of her dollar spending (after coal and industrial machinery). The saving of $200 million would help to meet the dollar deficit. Oil sales in the U.S. would help still more, and Canadians thought that the U.S. would not ignore this fact in its concern for the western world's economic health...
Roseanna McCoy (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio). In all its years of mining movies out of the trigger-happy hills of U.S. history and legend, Hollywood had somehow never hit on the famous feud of the West Virginia Hatfields and the Kentucky McCoys. With Roseanna McCoy, Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Irving (Enchantment) Reis have made good the oversight. The result is primarily a story of young love, more pastoral than pugnacious...