Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians fail, Lewis may still try to seize command of the C.I.O. to try to unite labor in a demand for a constructive domestic program, and to force through a place for labor at the defense program's top. (He is completely contemptuous of OPM's Sidney Hillman...
...FAIL Morpeth, Northumberland England...
Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...
...Paul Revere plug on the America Asks-Germany Answers broadcast, and a totally unsolicited testimonial went out on the ether. Axis-greased the announcer: "TIME and LIFE just rang me up a few seconds ago ... to get the story of Paul and a personal description. So don't fail to get the next issue of TIME and LIFE . . . The subscription rate is five dollars...
This book cannot fail to be disconcerting to all isolationists, and provides an arsenal of historical munition in favor of the interventionist point of view. Brief though it is, "Against This Torrent" is a forceful argument against "the wave of the future." As a refreshing departure from the recent flood of dollar books that are all form and no substance, this volume should be read by everyone who is interested in the future of our nation...