Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would have a new touchstone for his general program...
...present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten...
Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until the rake hurtled by into the blackness. Crazed with fear, men forgot the first rule of the rake-rider and jumped to their feet. They were decapitated...
...story of the graduate cafeteria appearing in the Crimson of December 15 showed a narrowness on the part of the University that is not one of its famed assets. To use its financial power to further a tradition that is a generation behind the times and not in accordance with the many advances it ahs made along other educational lines is to deny an even more valuable heritage, that of liberalism. Very truly yours, B. F. Gill...