Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Price Glory? The U.S. was determined that it should not happen again. The fast-dwindling group of those who believed in preparedness wanted a National Defense Act to establish and keep the framework of an army, so that the next time the U.S. would be ready. Pershing was still busy in France; he sent Colonel John McAuley Palmer to give advice, and Palmer framed an act setting up stronger National Guard units, ROTCs, CMTCs and a Regular Army of 280,000 men. Pershing came home to testify before Congress. He wanted a democratic Army. This was a democratic Army...
...turmoil did not necessarily mean revolution, though anything could happen. Argentines speculated that General Ramirez might give way as President to such extremist colleagues as Colonel Juan Peron, handsome, astute, ruthless Under Secretary of War and head of the Government's Labor Department; or to General Edelmiro Farrell, Irish-faced, hard-boiled Vice President...
...Tokyo, but their thinking, so far, consists mostly of questions, not conclusions. To a large extent the same attitude prevails among the people. One finds no unshakable faith or confidence that we and the world, once the war is won, are going to see that it does not happen again. . . ." John Foster Dulles called upon Christians to regain this faith. He said: "We have been a people of vision and self-confidence. Our founders . . . from the start conceived of their task as of worldwide import. Within a few generations there existed here an area of spiritual, intellectual and economic vigor...
...down as research, while Teammate Fletcher Marvin (Franchot Tone) wraps it up for the air, and the U.S. is swept by the greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody's sanity...
...sober Argentines, it seemed that one of two things was about to happen: either the Government of President Pedro Ramirez would break with the Axis soon, or it would be overthrown. This time, unlike the coup which ousted the Castillo Government last June, revolution might be bloody...