Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just behind and to his left was Cordell Hull. In semicircle before him sat Vice President Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...
...years, with the memories of the futility of World War I still fresh, U. S. citizens have urged one another to a progressively mounting hatred of war. For five years they have encouraged one an other in a growing distaste for the brutalities of Fascism. Today, the two emotions exist side by side in the hearts of most Americans. But Americans do not belong all in one camp, for in some one emotion is stronger, in some the other...
...German in question was a sex maniac who had been treated as he deserved. Hitler's retort was that there had not been one case, but six. . . . I contested every point and kept calling his statements inaccurate but the only effect was to launch him on some fresh tirade...
Scores, hundreds, thousands of French, British, Germans-seasoned survivors of World War I as well as fresh-faced fodder for World War II- suffered painful, personal wounds or death along the Perl-to-Lauterbourg front last week. So did hundreds of pigs which the French Infantry drove before them to locate and detonate concealed land mines. Yet B. Mussolini was not unduly cynical when he said: "Europe is not yet actually at war. The masses of the armies have not yet clashed...
...young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...