Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rally in this hour of her great Gethsemane to save her from a disastrous fate." In a fourth state, Alabama, white supremacy had already become a dangerously bitter issue. Against well-to-do, balding Senator Lister Hill, the 100% New Dealer who nominated Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago for Term III, up rose well-to-do, tall James Simpson, a corporation lawyer who decided to load his biggest campaign guns with the race question. Simpson accused Senator Hill of betraying "the South's traditions" to "outside agitators...
...leaders of Italy's anti-Fascist parties last week made a compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...President's decision to seek Term III ("the Term of Appeasement") Senator Johnson called "the greatest tragedy of American political history." If Term IV materializes, he predicted, it will be known in history as "the Term of Defeat and Frustration." The once great and powerful Democratic Party, he cried, has been reduced by "one-man control" to "hopeless impotency." "It no longer has the inclination or the will to resist those who would rape it. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic. One man will name its candidate for President, its candidate for Vice President, and write its platform...
They Did Not Pass. Paul André Triquet's great-grandfather fought in the Crimean War for Napoleon III; his grandfather fought the Germans who invaded his native France in 1870; his father, who emigrated to Canada, returned in 1914 to fight the Germans again. It seemed only natural for Paul at 19 to enlist as a private in the Royal 22nd Regiment, the "Van Doos...
...Louis Cairo, III...