Word: let
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day, with no ceremony at all, Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt: 1) estimated the cost of his recently ordered emergency additions to the Army, Navy, Marine corps (and FBI) at $275,000,000; 2) let it be announced that the Navy wants $1,300,000,000 in appropriations, to pay for eight cruisers, 52 destroyers, three aircraft carriers, 32 submarines -all over & above the huge naval construction program now under...
...there was indifference, today there is a public devoted as never before to Peace. In 1914 there was just hope, today there is fight. Every meeting over the weekend, from the extreme pacifists to the Anti-War Committee and the Student Union, is symbolic of an aroused America. Let the interventionists and the "savers of civilization" have their say, but let every word be answered by a thousand "Nos," not for a month or two, nor even a year, but as long as the war goes...
...Savoy, he promptly repents his sins and returns to the original G. & S. script for a while. Heaven forbid that any criticism should be smeared on the original, but it did sound pretty dull. It's too bad that Mr. Todd couldn't bury his conscience deep enough to let Charles Cook, his arranger, swing the whole score instead of just throwing in a jam session here and there...
Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a precise Baltimore bachelor, an alumnus of Johns Hopkins. He stuttered terribly but never let that bother him. As a Maryland gourmet, he was famed for his perfect dinner parties. As a Maryland lawyer, he specialized in wills. Last September Alfred Shriver died, aged 72, leaving a will that was something...
Britain's teachers tried desperate devices to keep the évacués out of mischief. They staged boxing and wrestling matches, started all sorts of games. Nevertheless, bored, homesick city toughies formed gangs, roved the countryside, beat up village children, threw stones at policemen, let pigs out of their pens, chased cows, skirmished with enraged farmers...