Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Court from the start. He was a Big Navy man throughout the '30s. Though he hoped the U.S. could keep out when War II began, he caught on quicker than most, was in the forefront, of the fight for Neutrality Act repeal, Lend-Lease, Selective Service, et...
...vitriolic press release Jimmy demanded 'that Ickes should be removed, perhaps impeached for his "Arabian adventure"-the proposed Government pipeline across the Middle East (TIME, Feb. 14 et seq.). "In my 38 years in the oil business," Jimmy told reporters, "I have heard nothing but [a U.S. oil] shortage." (He cited a 1920 statement by Jersey's William Parish that there was no more oil in Texas.) Besides, why should "that obstructionist" Ickes spend up to $165,000,000 of the taxpayers' money to promote a strictly commercial operation in the middle...
...Sergeant? The network can boast that it has more good programs than any one chain at home. Transcriptions of Bob Hope, Jack Benny,Fred Allen, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith et al. arrive weekly and are broadcast with no breaks for such affairs as soap operas...
Some Congressmen think the President has been needled into baiting them by the White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson...
...many a British and U.S. citizen with no professional interest in the proof of air power, this was not entirely bad news, if true. Repatriated U.S. citizens-newsmen, diplomats stranded in Vichy, et al-returning from the Reich last week gave no encouragement to the happy thesis that Germany was going to fall on her face this year...