Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balloon. Editorial writers recalled the 40-hour week in France and the fall of that nation. Many a U.S. citizen got the impression that thousands of U.S. workers were on strike, that hundreds of thousands were sabotaging the war effort in order to maintain a New Deal gain. The facts...
Finn Ferner and Hank Bigelow are the logical favorites to gain top honors for the "A" team, but experience so far this winter has discouraged heavy bets on any one person, so Del Ames and Tom Winship are likely to place as high as either of the others...
...Freshmen open the 1942 season on April 16, facing Wentworth Tech of Boston. A schedule of 20 games will give the team a great opportunity to gain experience for later...
...some it was a matter of question able honor but material gain. The "Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism," endorsed by Vichy, offered recruits a tidy 40 francs a day (against the ten francs paid by France's "Armistice Army"). In German uniforms and tricolor brassards, they swore fealty to the Reichsführer and were exhorted to avenge Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Men with families in concentration camps learned that joining the legion would free them...
...breeding war, demagogues and dictators, "mass unemployment, widespread dispossession from homes and farms, destitution, lack of opportunity for youth and of security for old age." Instead, "the church must demand economic arrangements measured by human welfare . . . must appeal to the Christian motive of human service as paramount to personal gain or governmental coercion...