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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clouded by a blind "Beat Hitler" policy; on the war aims side hope of a lasting peace is precluded by hazy phrases such as free trade and economic independence which don't recognize the nature of the world turmoil. The effect of such a program is to make us expand our energy in defense hysteria which promises little hope for the future and little success in the present...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

Bureaucracies Will Expand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIL LIBERTY DISCUSSED IN DUNSTER TALK | 12/2/1941 | See Source »

...Declaration of Intentions would expand, into terms as concrete as possible, Article IV of the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter: "They [the U.S. and Britain] will endeavor, with due respect for their existing obligations, to further enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beyond the Horizon | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Hillman luncheon he flabbergasted San Diegoans by bluntly telling the guest of the day: "The aviation industry is being kicked around. We're being forced to expand more than any other industry in the country and yet we are being constantly subjected to investigations and limitations." He made Sidney Hillman blink with his cold announcement that he would not sign a new union wage agreement unless the Government backed him financially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Builder of Big Ships | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...virile young American manhood? Perhaps it may be suggested that we have books that they haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched as it is by the blessings of civilizations, knows no moral law but the principle of expediency. Who knows by what infamous intrigue, what ruthless machinations, even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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