Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sert and his colleagues do not propose to leave the city to its apparently inevitable fate. Instead of dispersing the city or making it smaller, they would quicken its blood stream by means of express highways; give it air to breathe by surrounding each business and industrial district with a green belt; make it self-contained by providing facilities for recreation and fuller living within the city itself...
Even though this bill remains the only business before Congress, time will play an all-important role in its fate. Christmas is but three weeks away, and already members are anxious to get to the job of relaxation. Goaded by pleas from the White House, the Army and the Navy, ranking members of the Ways and Means Committee have agreed to try to get something done. They express doubts, however, that a quorum can be obtained with the holidays so near...
Then, in a peroration calculated to bring tears to the eyes of a brass monkey, the Mayor pointed to his 30 years of serving Jersey City "faithfully and honorably," pleaded with his citizens "to continue the confidence in me and my associates," promised that fate would vindicate his administration "because our cause is just and our courts are honest...
...college students and colleges finally learned their wartime fate last week. For the colleges it was worse than they had feared. As President Roosevelt signed the teen-age draft bill, making most of their students draftable, he said he would soon announce a plan to use "certain colleges and universities for the training of a limited number of men of the armed forces for highly specialized duties." The plan had already been outlined to Congress when the bill passed...
...compromise." But in his assurance he dropped a few words that may have sent a cold chill down the spines of the German people, who remember well and bitterly the end of the last war-when German generals appealed for peace while the Kaiser abandoned Germany to her fate. Said Hitler: "This Army is becoming more and more National-Socialist. . . . More and more differences are being eliminated. . . . In me [our enemies] have an adversary who does not even think of capitulation. At the head of this nation today there does not stand a man who would ever think of going...