Word: handsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At their hands were a score of new tools they had helped invent and perfect for just this purpose and moment. For at Munich-time (September 1938) Franklin Roosevelt told his administrators that never again must the U. S. be caught short, that plans must be drawn up to meet...
In further obedience to Congress, "Pink" Harrington last week: 1) warned subordinate officials to shun local, State and national politics, on pain of dismissal; 2) reduced the differences between WPA wages in the South and other regions. He increased the minimum pay for common labor in the South from $19...
The Union gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the...
The Peninsula. The Chamberlain and Daladier Governments have been savagely criticized for letting Spain fall into.the hands of Fascist Franco, who is now in a position to train big guns on Britain's Gibraltar from the landward side. The result of this strategic boner is that the British can...
But Willkie fired a final shot. Next day in Manhattan newspapers appeared a full-page advertisement, duplicate of an ad run two days before in Southern papers. Under a print of a church tower with the hands of the clock at 12, Copywriter Wendell Willkie wrote: "Tonight at midnight, we...