Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt Luck. It had poured before on Roosevelt occasions, notably at the 1937 inaugural when the drops came down like icicles, although generally the Roosevelt luck with weather had been fabulous. But it had never rained more incessantly and gloomily than now. It had begun long before 9:50 a.m., when Franklin Roosevelt climbed out of his private railroad car at the Brooklyn Army base. He eased himself into the black Packard, ordered the canvas top drawn back, and threw the Navy cape about his broad shoulders...
Authority to Act. In the second half of his speech he spoke of his own views. One of them: the United Nations organization, well begun at Dumbarton Oaks, should be completed before the war is over. And he stated flatly that, in his opinion, the U.S. representative on the United Nations Council "must be endowed in advance by the people themselves, by constitutional means through their representatives in Congress, with authority...
There, as in Seattle, he sought to prove that labor's great gains had begun under a Republican administration-with the Railway Labor Act of 1926. "There's no reason why our social trend should not continue. There's no reason except one-the New Deal-tired out, and too long in office. It distrusts people. It treats social gains of the Nineteen Thirties as its own private property. It wants to hold office forever in stalemated idleness. I say that social gains are not the property of any party...
...that "when the news is finally released it is expected to be ... sensational. . . ." But it was clear that three years and four months after Germany had invaded Russia, the Russians had invaded Germany. The battle for East Prussia - Germany's "bowels of iron and heart of steel" - had begun...
Glamor Goes. The process had already begun. World War II had deglamorized the gypsies, forced them into an activity they had successfully avoided for centuries-work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...