Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week expressed by Kenneth G. Crawford, who wrote in the Nation: "Is the Roosevelt Administration neutral? Certainly not. Is there any chance of the U. S. to stay out of another world war? Practically none. Will the Rooseveit program of liberal reform go on in the event of a general war? It will not. . . . Would the outbreak of a war mean a third term for President Roosevelt? Probably...
...Limited Emergency." Franklin Roosevelt meantime made much hay of the Neutrality which he had. He busily divided its enforcement between Treasury, Army & Navy and other departments (see p. 22). Attorney General Frank Murphy for the newsreels spoke tensely of spies and of every patriot's duty. Federal legalites searched the Constitution and the statutes for special powers...
...broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under the strictest White House orders not to talk publicly about the extent of these powers...
...relations which Luxembourg may have in seven Far Western States, Alaska and Hawaii is one Prosper Reiter. Last month Sheriff E. W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles County, Calif., said his vice squad visited the white, rambling Reiter residence and office near Hollywood. The Sheriff subsequently complained to Attorney General Earl Warren of California that the place was "an alleged gambling establishment," added that diplomatic immunity protected Prosper Reiter and prevented his arrest so long as he stayed in the consulate. "If the evidence warrants my doing so," continued Sheriff Biscailuz, "I am going to ask the Secretary of State...
...Company to a military hero. Arcot and Plassey were his smashing victories. At Arcot, Clive's little army of 500 defeated an opposing army of 10,000. At Plassey, Clive's 3,200 men routed 50,000. William Pitt described him in Parliament as "the heaven-born general...