Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the Nazis came to Rumania and Poland's late leaders were herded into a concentration camp at Dragoslav. Last week the Marshal again justified his nickname when he and a number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...
...first real test, some New Dealers boasted that consumption would get the long end of this boom too. But 1940 killed any hope that Defense spending might be a short cut to plenty and graceful living. The imminence of rationing in steel, in aluminum, in tools, in a dozen lesser consumer-goods necessities made 1941 look like an uncomfortable year. In 1940, consumers did benefit; 1940 produced more guns and more butter. But 1941 would have to produce still more guns and-perhaps-less butter...
Brilliant Alfred was not much interested in money, left all business details to Harold, used to say with a careless gesture: "My rich brother can handle that." By the time Lord Northcliffe died in 1922, they also owned the stately London Times, the Daily Mirror, various lesser publishing enterprises. Out of a welter of involved deals and suits that followed Northcliffe's death, Rothermere emerged with control of all these properties except the Times, which was sold to Major John Jacob Astor...
...plea is not for military participation, but merely for realism. The term "short of war" is meaningless, for we have already committed acts of war. Our choice, therefore, is not between war or peace. It is between a lesser evil and a greater...
...begin with some of the lesser inaccuracies, I grant that direct military invasion of this country is highly improbable. But demonstrating our safety by pointing to England's resistance to invasion is completely erroneous. As we all know England is having a very, very difficult time and I for one would rather fight in Europe than see our country placed in a situation so precarious...