Word: manifeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty...
...into an inglorious isolation after the war, but will assume its due share of responsibility for the welfare of a post-war world. With the United States participating in an effective system of collective security, Russia's requirements for individual security might be less pressing. A President with the manifest decretals of the treaty-ratifying Senate would have far greater influence in fashioning a rational peace. The present resolution seems best adapted to provide such support, requiring but a simple majority and sped by the clarifying atmosphere of total...
...right. Most notable example of cutting below bedrock: farm equipment, where a WPB order cutting production to 20% of 1940 coincided with a draft and wage policy that drained workers off the farm and a farm-production policy that called for astronomical quantities of food. This manifest absurdity received only piecemeal attention until the U.S. food situation had assumed near-crisis proportions...
Madame Luce's--"globaloney" speech, together with Representative Joseph Martin's remarks that "America must rule the air," had created great consternation in Britain. Similarly isolationist forces abroad warned of America's intentions and bitterly attacked her policy of global supremacy as a 1943 version of "manifest destiny"; Lord Londonderry among others urged strong counter-measures. Secretary Knox's plea for American naval bases all over the world was equally unfortunate. Alarm in the New Zealand House of Representatives over such bases forced Prime Minister Fraser to declare formally that he believed President Roosevelt "incapable of a mean action...
...believe we merit that the Allies manifest more interest in our country and we reiterate our invitation to them to send a commission representing all the Allied Governments in order to convince themselves on the spot of the true state of affairs...