Word: convoying
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...Lend-Lease Act was our Munich. Is the convoy plan to be our Poland...
Their leader, her hair awry, nails in deep mourning, knobby legs without stockings, splayed feet in battered old white moccasins, carried a U.S. flag. Others carried signs bearing anti-convoy sentiments; excerpts from Presidential speeches promising no foreign wars. A big Negro, third in line, better dressed than anybody else, carried a sign "Jim Crow is NOT Democracy." He liked to lecture. "This here's no democracy," he would say pontifically, "when a fellow like me, just because he's black, can't get a job in the factories getting rich off of defense contracts." Behind...
...Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking boilermakers, painters went through the lines with him. Next day the U.S. Navy did its first convoying, when Captain W. P. Gaddis headed a convoy of trucks carrying more non-strikers through the line. But the scowling machinists, as they well knew, were the key men. Little work could be done until they went back, and at week's end they were still...
Carrying as anti-convoy petition signed by ever 1900 New England college students, including 950 from Harvard, Edward L. Barnes '36, president of the Student Council of the Architectural school, and Sponoer A. Klaw, second marshal of the Senior Class few to Washington by plane last night to present their petition of non-intervention to President Roosevelt before he makes his national address Tuesday evening...
...President James Bryant Conant a small fleet of toy destroyers, to convoy him back and forth on his scientific missions...