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Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/4/1943 | See Source »

Without a Red army keeping the Germans engaged on the eastern front, Hitler would be free to detach a major part of his troops for use elsewhere. The problems of a second front in Europe would be enormously enlarged, for there would be no first front. German control of the Eurasian land mass would outflank Africa, surround China, leave Britain and the Americas islands in the west facing a terrible struggle to rebuild the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: If Russia Fell | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Although she is one of the leading Boston advocates of the Unkin plan. Miss Caurs, president of the Radcliffe Freshmen, found herself sitesking it during the detach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS VICTORIOUS IN RADCLIFFE MATCH | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...fighting the Greeks long after The Atatürk knew he had been whipped, is also quite fearless. Last week into the deaf ears of this master of the Dardanelles poured blandishments, at his stout heart were hurled threats, as Ambassador Franz von Papen sought to detach Turkey from its French-British guarantees, hook it to the Swastika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Deaf Ears | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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