Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Chairman: "Then why must you go stravaiging among foreign writers and never give a thought to our own great writers...
...attended the State Democratic convention in Aberdeen. That decided him that the whole trouble with the country was professional politicians, who, controlling the votes of non-property owners, the ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan...
...Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
Chief of the North American section of the Ministry of Information is Andre Lefebvre de Laboulaye, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., grandson of the man who first thought up the idea of France's giving the U. S. the Statue of Liberty. One of M. Laboulaye's brightest assistants is Pierre de Lanux, who learned about the U. S. while lecturing here for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and The League of Nations Association. More over, he has a tall, slender, beautiful, U. S.-born wife...
...charming Mrs. Krock and the intense Mrs. Patterson had met socially several times last week since they parted professionally. There were no eruptions. Some of her friends thought they heard Mrs. Krock say one evening: "Well, thank God, I've still got Arthur Krock...