Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national agoraphobia after World War I and Franklin Roosevelt's effort to buy a way out of World War II with Lend-Lease were only zigzags in the broad U.S. policy. F.D.R. understood that when, before Pearl Harbor, he told Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal...
...Franklin Roosevelt had no more bitter foe at home, he had no more ardent supporter abroad. Douglas was one of the first to warn against the rise of Hitlerism. He went back into Government service, first as Lend-Lease expediter in London, then as Deputy War Shipping Administrator. As London's News...
McCloy accepted with the understanding that, no matter how the Bank was set up on paper, he would be boss in fact as well as in title. To play safe, he demanded -and got-the resignation of "Pete" Collado. (Washington gossiped that Collado would soon go to China to lend a hand in stabilizing the currency...
...think," Golden replied to the accompaniment of lend cheers from the gallery, "that we have succeeded to breaking up the powerful business monopolies...
This afternoon Seegar will be alone with his banjo and his voice when he lets forth in Emerson. Tomorrow night, however, a bevy of his singing cohorts will join him in a "Hootenanny" in New England Mutual Hall. Jenny Hill, Tom Glazer and Brownie McGhee, popular songsters, will lend their talents to the folk concert...