Word: colds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
...Russia's quick Baltic grab that snipped off Estonia and threatened Latvia (see p. 28), the second German-Russian "friendship" and economic pact. But, as the geese flew south over the ruins of Warsaw, and ice formed on the remote Finnish lakes, a wintry blast of cold scorn crossed the Atlantic with their cables...
What he said in his cold, precise voice was as simple as it was devastating. Instead of the $3,768,000,000 of revenue estimated last April, the Government would need no less than $8,000,000,000 for the first year of its war against Adolf Hitler...
...foreign, not a domestic quarrel for the German people, and they will rally together to prevent a second Versailles. And secondly, the nation has the same amount of food it always has had, but Nazi officials have been rationing it for years and storing it in large cold storage plants...
More important still is a cold analysis of the consequences of war in the light of historical evidence. What is the effect of an armed conflict upon a nation's birth rate, its mortality rate, its political organization, its ethics and culture? Democracy may be worth saving no matter what the aftermath. But perhaps the very effects of a war may destroy all the conditions necessary to its existence...