Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the White committees extend through the western colleges, they have much less general support. Replies received by the Harvard Committee indicate that in many colleges the full aid sentiment is used up in the existing machinery, and the formation of further groups is impossible...
...automobile accident while driving home after the Democratic National Convention, prepared to take his first steps as Senator-appointee. He prepared a radio speech urging 1) aid to Britain (with the Army and Navy to be the best judges of "how much and what sort of aid we can extend with safety"), 2) the election of Wendell Willkie. Because his 35th birthday comes next month he would register for the draft, as would Governor Stassen (33) and Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson (28), then leave for Washington to take the oath and begin work as the Senate's youngest...
...running mate-who had been drafted by Pittsburgh GOPoliticos for the occasion, in order to keep the honor from little Governor Arthur H. James-Willkie promised to appoint a man as Secretary of Labor ("it's a man's job"), to revise NLRB through special legislation, to extend Social Security, to enforce the wage-hour law, to clean out Communists in the Government. He asked labor to clean house of its racketeers. The speech went well with the audience, was said, unofficially, to have pleased C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis...
...cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt to extend his control down the west shore of the Black Sea, but that is an opportunity he can only wait and hope for. His major problem at present is defensive...
...Crimson wishes to extend its deepest sympathy to the management and patrons of the University Theatre, which, under the stress of circumstance, is forced to screen "The Way of All Flesh" and "Blondie Has Servant Trouble...