Word: mutualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union, organized in 1935 by Communists, Socialists and maverick liberals, by last week had lost most of its fellow travelers, was left mostly Communist. The remnant's loudest cry: no aid to Britain. Because Eleanor Roosevelt had advocated compulsory youth work camps, delegates last week divorced her (by mutual consent). They also demanded that the U. S. ally itself with China and the Soviet Union, wired President Roosevelt: YOU CAN'T PULL A WILSON...
...unhappy feature of British civilization. To their surprise rich and poor, gentlemen's some and the sons of artisans, discovered that they were very much the same sort of people. The common danger, the propinquity into which all are forced when they take shelter at night against bombardment, the mutual help when persons lie dead or wounded all about and houses are destroyed and all possessions lost, have united the nation in a new sympathy and comradeship. When your Mr. Kennedy said that democracy was dead in Britain he didn't know what he was talking about; democracy, not political...
...speaking, not only as a Briton, but as an American, taking his words from Oscar Hammerstein and Edna Ferber: "These two great organizations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, to broader lands...
Meanwhile in Birmingham bomb bores formed a mutual-aid society, "The Birmingham District Bombees Association," to listen to one another's bomb stories...
They did not agree on how much danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column...