Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds, mostly bought by U. S. citizens, in 1937 seized U. S. oil properties worth $17,000,000, has refused to settle.) But bygones and bargains were secondary with Sumner Welles; he was concerned with a sea wall for the Americas-a wall to keep death out and let life flourish in the great continents within...
Clarence June, Michigan swamp farmer, had a wife, ten children, a cow, and a house (one-room). But somehow life had begun to pall on him. His friend, George Davis, Flint factory worker, with a wife and four small daughters, was bored...
...often have we been told we are the effete democracies whose day is done, and who must now be replaced by various forms of virile dictatorship and totalitarian despotism? No doubt at the beginning we shall have to suffer, because of having too long wished to lead a peaceful life...
...last week, before the Polish Ambassador, the Polish Primate and a large audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this "tragic hour of your national life." Pale, and deeply moved, he spoke of his duty to give comfort, wept as he went on: "Now there are already thousands, hundreds of thousands, of poor human beings who suffer ... by this war from which all our efforts ... so obstinately, so ardently but, alas, so vainly fought to preserve...
...That Germany would fight back as ruthlessly was made equally clear when blockade-scared Berlin announced that armed merchantmen would be sunk without warning (see p. 34). There was good reason for Germany's retaliatory step, because Britain had already made gains in its economic offensive. Life in Germany was becoming increasingly grim. Items...