Word: largesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire over Spongier. In Congress, members of both parties have been readying bills to ease demobilization. But Franklin Roosevelt, firing a shot heard round the world by short wave, now stood out as the No. 1 champion of largess to World War II's veterans...
...interesting scene English missionaries are shown simultaneously distributing Bibles and guns to native Africans. These recipients of British largess were played by 50 Senegalese captured last summer on the Western Front in time for the film's shooting. Somewhat confined by the British blockade, Producer Jannings made the fields of Berlin's suburbs serve for the African veldt. It was no trouble to get oxen from Hungary. Nor were soldiers a problem. Adolf Hitler gladly supplied them from his vast unused troop pool...
This week, as U. S. retail sales reached their annual peak, U. S. corporate largess did the same. Directors shook the Christmas tree, brought down a shower of bonuses, raises, extra dividends...
...falls, the problem will only be compounded. Then Mr. Cudahy will not have to "present the reality of dealing with force as the only power." The reality will be pictures of bloated babies, of hungry women, and of Adolf Hitler, expecting to fatten one way or another on the largess of the U. S. people...