Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a time those words made U. S. bugles blow, flags wave, men march. Last week the bugles were still; the flags gathered dust in museums; many of those marching men had made a separate peace. And into another sort of grave-the pigeonholes of diplomacy-went the principle for which U. S. blood made red puddles in French mud 21 years...
...Cincinnati cemetery one day last week a weeping widow stood at her husband's grave. Suddenly out of the graveyard solitude came a voice. She listened, caught the word Reds-over & over, louder & louder. A little alarmed but more curious, she picked her way along the row of tombstones, came upon a mound of fresh earth. Peering around it, she discovered the source of the strange voice: a portable radio was keeping a pair of gravediggers posted on what was going en at Crosley Field five miles away...
That they are thus shown up in their own unkindly light is in itself an important achievement. Once out in the open they are farther along toward the grave. And having taken such a tremendous stride, the University is now completely and irrevocably committed against them...
...discretionary; Secretary Hull sought to have the law read: "The President may proclaim." Without enthusiasm, Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill that came to his ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 1, 1937 - and the word was "shall." Last week the President spoke from the House rostrum his grave regret for that signature of approval - the first time since he became Chief Executive he has thus publicly admitted a major mistake. This conciliatory note was typical of the surface serenity of last week's Washington scene...
...slumped in a front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...