Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away, somewhere in the fog of the North Atlantic, and the eight-point Atlantic Charter it produced (TIME, Aug. 25) seemed as blurred and fuzzy as the inexpert newsreels which gave the U.S. public its only presence at that meeting. This meeting might possibly be the first broad hint that some day the two nations might draw together-perhaps in some sort of federation like Clarence Streit's Union Now, perhaps in some other form, perhaps in a friendship which would require no blueprint at all. But right now their meeting chiefly concerned the concrete present...
Churchill the Man. Day after his arrival, Winston Churchill sat beside Franklin Roosevelt behind the broad desk of the oval office in the Executive Offices, waiting with the poker-faced calm of a veteran political speaker while 200-odd U.S. and foreign newsmen gathered for a press conference unique in White House history...
...admission that the U.S. forces in Honolulu were "not on the alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...President was also reported to be thinking about setting up a National War Council, to consist of a few top military men and civilians, with broad executive powers to order coordination of the domestic war effort on the military, industrial, civilian and labor fronts...
Under the Act dissemination of information which can be construed as of value to the enemy subjects those responsible to heavy fines, imprisonment and even the death penalty. The terms of the law are so general and so broad that the press is virtually at the mercy of the censor. If he decides that any paper has said too much he can instigate its prosecution by the Department of Justice, get the Postmaster General to bar it from the mails-and put its editors in jail...