Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualities of thought, we who believe in our way of life and our hard won freedoms for the individual have no choice but to fight it out, in one way or another. ... If the actual battleground can be confined to the continent of Europe it will certainly be the part of wisdom for this country to do its part fully to see that this issue is settled as completely as possible in the place where war has been started...
...Western Hemisphere is half the world; in it are 21 republics who want no part in World War II. Last week 21 men assembled in Panama to chart a course of continental neutrality-and, from that, continental solidarity...
Chief candidate for election as the Legion's national commander was Raymond J. Kelly-genial, redhaired, toothy Irishman, ex-artilleryman. He was one of the War Veterans who petitioned Frank Murphy to run for Mayor of Detroit, and as general counsel of the Detroit Street Railways, was part of Frank Murphy's Detroit "New Deal." Later he was appointed Corporation Counsel, the office he now holds...
...blue. Twelve days later, by the King's command, she assumed the title of Commandant in Chief of the three women's auxiliaries to the fighting services-Women's Royal Naval Service, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. A large part of her new life was thus to be devoted to leading Britain's women-at-war, and the uniforms of these organizations were added to her wardrobe,* the first warlike garments to be worn by an English Queen since the days of Boadicea...
...Women. Not only were Britain's women taking the major part in Britain's social reorientation, they were taking the brunt of it. The men were in the Army or the Government or carrying on in essential businesses, for the time being socially fixed. With the women it was different. Many thousands of British working women found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly...