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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What he wanted was immediate, non-partisan action by Congress in special session to repeal the embargo on U. S. arms shipments to belligerents. The conferees agreed on non-partisan action for peace (but not, said Alf Landon afterward, to the point of forgoing partisan politics in 1940 and handing Franklin Roosevelt a third term). But they gave no committal whatsoever on the embargo. Franklin Roosevelt's biggest net gain was Jack Garner's potent support-at least for 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Quoting that line without naming its author, Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper sizzled: "I think it is very much to the point to be thinking of our skins-at least to be thinking of those American families whose sons would have to risk their skins." Into the Congressional Record went the Clapper column, six pages after Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Record Sandwich | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...programs will consist of discussions in German, French, and Italian covering "the American business situation, data on American politics, and an account of the American point of view on some important problems of foreign affairs," according to Professor Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Professor Will Direct Foreign Language Newscasts | 9/29/1939 | See Source »

...While no effort was made at propaganda," he said yesterday, "events were naturally interpreted on these broadcasts from the democratic and specifically American point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slavic Professor Will Direct Foreign Language Newscasts | 9/29/1939 | See Source »

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