Word: fighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said he: "In and out of Congress we have heard orators and commentators and others beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history. . . . The simple truth is that no person in any responsible place in the National Administration ... or in any State Government, or in any city government, or in any county...
...Paraphrasing Charles C. Pinckney's famed "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute!" Harry Woodring cried last week: "Every man and every dollar necessary for the defense of America, but not one dollar to fight the wars of other nations...
Last Big Man up was Pius XII. Like some of the others, he had made private peace negotiations. Now, in the first encyclical of his reign, he grieved that "our advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...
Able diplomatist that he is, His Holiness had foreseen that the Allies would fight. He had been "convinced that the use of force on one side would be answered by recourse to arms on the other." More important, devout Catholic that he is, he knew which side he was for, and, unlike his predecessors during War I, said...
...Maharaja of Nawanagar, in western India, promised a tenth of his annual revenue of $3,400,000, was politely put off when he asked to be allowed personally to fight the Germans...