Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence in September, when D.N.B. (Nazi news agency) reported that Germany's Catholic bishops had written a pastoral letter glorifying Adolf Hitler-and the only Catholic denial came from neutral Switzerland-the Vatican broadcast lashed out also at Nazi maltreatment of the faithful: "The latest news item from Austria announces that the closing of monasteries continues, the latest monasteries to be closed being those of the Capuchins at Innsbruck and the Franciscans at Hall. All the goods of the religious church have been confiscated...
Despite Nazi boasts of a better Germany, the health-standards of the country have been disastrously lowered, an item which may prove to be of great importance in the event of a long war. The rate of occurrence of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and infantile paralysis have more than tripled since 1933, Miss Mann pointed out; this constitutes a grave menace to the German war economy...
...twelve deafening minutes he stood on a table before the roaring crowd. When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving...
...Next item on the 1940 Guardian series of radio programs is a forum Sunday on the topic, "Is Britain Fighting Our Battle?" Speakers are Howard Mumford Jones, Professor of English, Russell Nixon, instructor in Economics, and Samuel Beer, instructor in Government...
Accusing the President of following a policy of "calling names and waving a big feather duster," Professor Wernette cited business indices in his appeal for defense and prosperity. In his view, Roosevelt is the greatest "bottleneck" of all in the defense program because of his desire to investigate each item of the program before it goes into effect...