Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action -met in haste. Georgia and West Virginia speedily passed soldier vote measures. The legislatures of Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin called special January sessions. Arkansas nervously dusted off a 1923 law abolishing the poll tax for soldiers. New Jersey's Governor Charles Edison stepped forward with a scheme for mailing postcards to servicemen overseas...
Republicans did not press forward with endorsements. But most of them seemed as sweetly reasonable as Scott Lucas. Said G.O.P. House Leader Joe Martin, giving soldier vote legislation first place on his Congressional "must" list: "The States will do all they can . . . but there is need for some assistance from the Federal Government." Maine's silver-topped Wallace H. White, G.O.P. Senate spokesman while Oregon's Charlie McNary is ill, was ready to go to "extreme lengths" to get the issue settled quickly. Said he: "It would be a calamity if we ... left eight to ten million soldiers...
...Bolshevik's polemical dictionary. "Willkie Is Stirring the Waters" was the title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense," Pravda discovered "a rotten smell of familiar anti-Soviet slanders designed to cause mistrust toward the Soviet Union...
...Looking forward to a weekend of fun as I'm sure with so-o-o (ed. note--so help me!) many men, you can find a meagre four who are interested. Sincerely...
...been pushed out of eyeshot, and Maypole went after him. Someone told him to follow a wire to the forward command post's generator. He hounded it through the stinking jungle, over dead trees, dead Japs, swampland, until alone Marine popped his head out from behind a log and hollered...