Word: japanned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conscription, lend-lease, the destroyers-to-Britain deal, arming U.S. merchantmen. When Germany broke with Russia he declared: "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later voted against participation in U.N. "As long as vetoes are insisted upon," he said, "there is no real will to peace. . . ." He tried...
Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., was in Honolulu, on his way home from Korea and Japan, when a telephone call from the White House caught up with him. The call was from John Steelman. Harry Truman's aide wanted to know whether Hoffman, who had been a member of a commission making a Far East economic survey, would head the Economic Cooperation Administration. Hoffman said later: "I tried for two days to think of how to say No, but I just couldn't." Two days later, lugging a suitcase full of dirty laundry, he landed in Washington...
...feel very lonely." Kuniyoshi, twice-married, is president of the 850-member Artists' Equity, and a thoroughly sociable member of the Greenwich Village-Woodstock, N.Y. artists' set. His loneliness may go back to the day in 1906 when he arrived in the U.S. from Japan, a friendless boy of 13, to seek his fortune...
...example, Northwest Airlines, Inc., which lost $1,141,340, had put a lot into developing its short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...
...stayed "neutral." Instead, he confines himself to evidence that Roosevelt deliberately goaded Hitler with Lend-Lease, illegal convoying and attacks on his submarines that amounted to undeclared war. When Hitler refused to be provoked into war by this abuse, Beard argues, President Roosevelt began, through diplomacy, to squeeze Japan into a position where she would be sure to fight. Not only that, says Beard, but Roosevelt and Hull rejected a Japanese "truce" which might have averted a Pacific war entirely. This line of argument indicates a willingness to let Japan get away with the conquests she had already made...