Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more representation of labor on draft boards. But diplomatic Lewis Hershey confined him self to a cogent generality that was buzzing that day, as it had for weeks past, in many a citizen's mind. The U. S. must have unity in national defense, said he significantly, "Lest we each hang separately." Evidence that that unity was lacking had cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal...
...Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...
...Greeks discussed the news. In the Italian quarters - it was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome-fruit peddlers and bootblacks told enquiring reporters v/hat they thought of Italy's war on Greece, but would not give their names or addresses, lest they be accused of belonging to the quinta colonna (fifth column...
...Boston, President Roosevelt last week spent a day in Washington facing this new international problem. He and the State Department had faced many such situations before. They had developed a routine treatment: a solemn condemnation of the aggression; the freezing of the invaded country's U. S. funds, lest they fall into the hands of the invader. But last week the familiar crisis routine was not re-enacted. The President, who had long professed to be so occupied with foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with campaigning that he could spare...
...McLoughlin, Coach Jaako Mikkola's Number Two runner who finished fifth in the triangualr H. Y. P. meet last Saturday, may be lest to the squad for the Heptagonal in New York this weekend. He received a bad leg bruise yesterday when he ran into the fence...