Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have "set the stage" for an early meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill or Anthony Eden. Roosevelt and Churchill have conferred in person three times during World War II: on Aug. 14, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, they signed the Atlantic Charter; in the latter part of December 1941, at the White House, they organized the U.S.-G.B. War Council; in June 1942 they planned the North African campaign...
Though he moved to University Hall too late to see much of then-President Eliot, he has been stationed for years in the same building with the late President Emeritus Lowell and President Conant, even moving to the latter's present office in Massachusetts Hall...
...Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church, outside Detroit, sent a letter to the Detroit Council of Churches. Wrote tall, reddish-haired, 32-year-old Merrill O. Bates: "I deeply regret that you have worded your entrance requirements so as to make membership in the Council impossible for the following churches: Latter-Day Saints [Mormon], Christian Science and Unitarian. Our sons, our fathers, our brothers are dying on land and sea that justice and freedom-yea, even the Christian Religion might live, while we at home draw circles around our love." Mr. Bates probably referred to Edwin Markham's lines...
Playing themselves out in the first half of the contest, the Puritans were unable to break through the zone defense which the Bunnies employed so effectively in the latter part of the tilt...
Cushion for Casualties. Yet soon or late, and probably soon, more concentration will be on the way. To carry it out much will depend on the good sense of the Government and the small businessman himself. For the latter the hardest lesson of all is that though he is fighting for his life, so after all is his country. For Government the biggest problem is to provide some means of compensation, without engaging in monumental subsidies, so that businesses which are squeezed out now can reappear later. Best notion yet advanced is Donald Nelson's recommendation to Congress last...