Word: boiledness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly, President Dubinsky labeled such reports "absolutely untrue." But his old friend Louis Stark did not mind and Mr. Stark's old friends knew better. Ever since Mr. Dubinsky accused John L. Lewis of responsibility for the breakdown of A. F. of L.-C.I.O. peace negotiations last December, relations...
Meanwhile, in groups large & small, many Leftist Spanish soldiers came half-famished through the crags of the Pyrenees, stumbling over crests white with eternal snow (see cut). They straggled down the valleys, handed their guns to French frontier guards, entered refugee camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout...
¶ Finally produced a full-fledged program intended to defeat Depression. As Franklin Roosevelt explained it to Congress in a special message and to the nation in a "fireside chat." it boiled down to the familiar New Deal story of "pump-priming" (see p. 10).
Three facts convinced him, he went on, that he liked America. First, he was used to the country; second, he particularly was fond of New England and the eastern strip of New York. Concerning the people in this section, he said, "I do not like all the people but many...
Delousing stations (where soldiers bathed and their clothes were boiled) were part of the standard military equipment of the World War. Every member of the American Expeditionary Force, before he was permitted to reembark for the U. S., was obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only...