Word: hopelessness
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Having voted 3-to-1 for an earlier version, the House had already rejected the argument that the bill would not only "control" but stultify essential Federal functions. When Texas' lemony, relentless Hatton Sumners called the Senate bill up for final passage by the House, hostile but hopeless Administration leaders had already given up. This week they let it pass (176-to-51), expected a veto by Franklin Roosevelt...
...first thing in democracy is not economics but the dignity of man, the perfectibility of man, the fraternal basis of treatment and government by the consent of the governed," Merriam maintained. "Those who are not willing to stand up and fight for this program will find themselves thrown into hopeless confusion...
...Italy of Boston parents, he enlisted with the Canadians in World War I, was twice gassed. He is the author of Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3, 1935), a superb war novel, in which three brave French soldiers were executed for "mutiny" after a sadistic general had ordered a hopeless attack...
...that even the terrific bombardment of Coventry (see p. 20) could not dull it. It served notice on Germany that the Italian Navy was a dangerously impotent ally. It gave the Greeks, and other interested small nations, profound new respect for the Royal Navy. It convinced many a formerly hopeless U. S. citizen that the British Empire could sufficiently take care of itself to deserve all the help it could get, and by seriously reducing Axis sea power made the seas that much freer for all the democracies...
...America prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free. To harness America's productive might for constructive ends is a colossal task. It means, in the broad sense of the word, revolution. But it is neither easy nor good nor lasting to throw millions of men into a hopeless struggle that will be repeated over and over, faster and faster, as the world is plunged into a new Dark...