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Word: pledgee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Great Sound, 700 miles southeast of New York, 580 miles east of Cape Hatteras, five miles wide, almost landlocked, warm, blue and beautiful, was a naval base long before it became a U. S. tourist haven. Last week Bermudians were pleased at the U. S. negotiations but memorialized their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Line-Up | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

How much safe conduct Hitler might be expected to pledge* was suggested last week as the U. S. Army transport American Legion cleared from the Finnish port of Petsamo for Manhattan. Aboard were Crown Princess Martha of Norway and her three children, bound for the haven of the U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Children and Starvation | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Canada. Another place where the U. S. could act was Canada. Last week the New York Herald Tribune made another proposal: that Canada and the U. S. sign a pact of mutual defense. Its argument: the U. S. could make such a treaty without U. S. involvement in World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Ready for Action | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

But what Jim Farley knew, he had pledged not to tell. And beyond that one thing he knew nothing. Scratching their heads, perplexed, anxious, the hordes went to the Hopkins headquarters. There they got rough treatment. Not a single post-Convention promise was made to them, and only one pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

By Monday night even the blindest party hack could see what had happened. For the first time since 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was in absolute command of the party he, had raised from a 15,000,000-vote low (1928) to a 27,000,000-vote top (1936). The purge that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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