Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that font of British Governmental information, the London Times, from one who has lectured, instructed, amused and scared Americans by the thousand...
...unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...
When the Cabinet assembled next afternoon, the President, who likes nothing better than to pop a dramatic surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...
...Woman, to General Johnson: "Don't you think you could better defend democracy by upholding President Roosevelt, who was elected by the great majority of the American people...
Johnson: ". . . It has been my policy and my practice ever since he started to run for office to defend him when I thought he was right (and I submit that nobody ever defended him better), and to criticize him when I think he is wrong. ... I will continue to do that until they put me in Alcatraz...