Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resolution permitting the U. S. ship McKeesport (with Red Cross supplies for refugees) to proceed through belligerent waters to Bordeaux was amended before passage. The amendment-suggested by Senator Clark of Missouri and written by Senator Pittman-was aimed to prevent other similar ships from running blockades or supplying other than Red Cross materials to belligerents. However, Senator Holt in his speech, made before the amendment was proposed, made no reference to desiring any amendment to the resolution-he objected to it simply on the ground that it might involve...
...period of British control?" But Lord Lothian is not sanguine about the possibility of the U. S. acting with any other power. Says he: If the U. S. decides to act, it will be because she feels her vital interests require it, "and she is far more likely to proceed by the method of unilateral declaration of policy, involving no commitment to anybody else, as she did in the case of the Monroe Doctrine, than by any kind of alliance with or pledge to any other country...
...York Times the urgent thoughts that many a citizen has been thinking about U. S. Defense. Excerpts: "The United States must be prepared immediately to defend with its own resources, alone and unaided, not only continental United States but all, or considerable portions, of the Western Hemisphere. . . . We must proceed on the assumption that we shall have to go it alone. We cannot afford the luxuries of business as usual and politics as usual...
...campaign is well along will it be clear just what, as President, Willkie could or would do for U. S. business. Die-hard Old Guards were still grumbling last week at his endorsement of many a New Deal reform. New Dealers pointed out that if rearmament is to proceed, no candidate can make an honest campaign issue of budget balancing or lower taxes. But Wall Street believed (in the words of Financial Writer Ralph Hendershot) that Willkie "will get more for the Government's money." And thousands of U. S. businessmen, turning their backs on President Roosevelt for what...
...cryptic communique issued last night by the Flag Officers stated that, "Plans are maturing. The flotilla will proceed under sealed orders to be given out tomorrow night. No enemy opposition is expected...