Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have them shipped to Europe so that I, who am of the draft age, and thousands of other American youth may have the satisfaction of being laid away in a coffin marked, "MADE...
Many an advocate of embargo repeal declares that he wants it in order to keep the U. S. out of war, whereas obviously he has quite another reason : he does not think it will bring war, and he wants to strike a blow at Fascism. Similarly many an opponent of repeal hastens to add that he is against Fascism and all its works whereas he has patently adopted a know-nothing, believe-nothing attitude toward the perils of Fascism, feeling that to do so may save him from the perils of war. With emotion thus muddled, Congressional argument grew equally...
...politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...
...Eric and Erwin did not much like the Nazi doctrines preached at them by an uncle: they sounded somehow different from what they had heard in Wisconsin. Then one day the order came to report for the labor corps on October...
...when Hitler was about to order German troops into the Rhineland, Fritsch led a clique of officers who opposed the move, and Hitler's reputed pledge to commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both...