Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi conquest of Russia (wrote the analysts in the White House) would: 1) remove armed resistance from Germany's eastern flank; 2) extend Germany's flank to the Pacific; 3) furnish Germany needed resources from Russia and the Middle East; 4) allow an all-out attack on the British Isles; 5) allow a drive for Nazi conquest of all Northern Africa; 6) strengthen German propaganda peace moves...
...there a national emergency or is there not? With fear & trembling the House confronted this question-a question in the form of a bill to extend the service of draftees in the Army...
...idea how long it takes to train a man adequately? I believe what the average draftee objects to most about the draft legislation is its ambiguity. In effect, General Marshall advises we be retained for "the duration" and on the other hand we hear of proposed legislation to extend the period by six months or a year. In another half year will this period again be extended? It is similar to taking the subway and not knowing if it's an express or makes the local stop you want...
...problems continued to pile up on the President's desk like a range of mountains. For months the President had delayed and stalled, trying to avoid asking Congress to extend indefinitely the draftees' one-year term of service. When time began to close in on him, he still avoided direct personal leadership. Unwilling to buck the line himself, he sent in General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, to carry the ball and get the lumps. Good Soldier Marshall pounded down the field, through center, off-tackle, around the ends. The watching President couldn't believe...
...motion of Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma the Privy Council approved the appointment of two special investigators in the Foreign Affairs Section of the Police Bureau. Purpose of this move is to extend Thought Control (Japanese for suppression of free speech) to all matters of foreign policy. The police immediately issued a warning against "loose talk" in criticism of the Government's still unannounced "momentous decision" (TIME, July...