Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, two days before, Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had charged that Secretaries Stimson and Knox, in arguing for the federal ballot, had shown that they "are today running for a fourth term" because they regard themselves as indispensable to the conduct of the war. But after the Roosevelt message, balding, humorless Bob Taft, ordinarily dry and legal in manner, leaped up with red face and flailing arms. He called the President's message a "direct insult" to Congress, and charged that the President is planning to line up soldiers for the Fourth Term "as the WPA workers...
Said Wing Commander Eric John Hodsoll, A.R.P. Inspector General: "Antigas precautions have been tightened up. The Germans will regard the interruption of our invasion operations as their first objective and might use any weapon...
...Pressure of public opinion rather than pressure of events precipitated the reorganization. . . . So the Department, with a repugnance that was hard to conceal, set to work. . . . The jaundice with which we regard it isn't due to the new organization, but has to do with the men in it. They are precisely the same persons who upheld the organization which has now been leveled to the ground . . . well-known names, rare in lore of various kinds, rich in experience, and ripe in years. In short, they are 'safe.' They could not be otherwise. . . . Surely the Department...
...costly were his mistakes-and ours -and so strong is the likelihood that we shall run through the same tragic cycle again, that I regard it as a solemn duty to lay aside all personal predilections and present some pertinent if disagreeable truths...
They do not regard membership in cooperatives as synonymous with "collectivism" or "socialism." To them, it is the voluntary "integration" of the individual with the community, something that might be called "nonisolated individualism" as contrasted with "rugged individualism." Waring & Teller believe in reading books, and they swear particularly by the prewar yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture, which were authored largely by the remarkably clear and persuasive Gove Hambidge. Book learning has enabled Waring & Teller to push family agriculture into many profitable bypaths...