Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
Your "Strategy" under National Defense, July 22, p. 19 . . . has me so upset and fearful for the fate of our nation and people that the only ultimatum I can foresee is destruction of all that took so many years to build up. We all want cold, clean facts-but must they all be so disheartening? Cannot you probe-dig in-and "dish us out" a few encouraging remarks...
Great were the pressures upon the President, the State Department, Great Britain to put humanity first, the fate of the last great European democracy second. The American Friends [Quaker] Service Committee (Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity), the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., Herbert Hoover pleaded for humanity. Most influential of these voices belonged to Herbert Hoover, who during and after World War I distributed $5,234,028,208* worth of relief to Europe. Mr. Hoover announced that his European Food Distribution Commission had asked Great Britain and Germany to consent to U. S. aid. Said he: "There...
...unification of the American Republics against totalitarian political and economic penetration would have been a big diplomatic feat in any period. It was doubly impressive in view of traditional Latin-American fear of "Yankee imperialism," that Communists and Nazis labored desperately to keep alive. Agreement on the fate of threatened European colonies in the Western Hemisphere was a diplomatic achievement for future textbooks. It was more impressive in view of the legend that democracies cannot act fast...
...European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords of the Third Reich and the protagonists of European revolution? On the answer to that question hangs the issue of the war and the fate of these islands...