Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason is partly age (69 years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
...Hore-Belisha had tried to start an argument by insisting that Britain's war effort was far from maximum, that its intelligence service was inept. The Prime Minister scornfully said of Hore-Belisha: "With all good wishes, I think he sometimes stands in need of some humility in regard to the past." Mortified, Hore-Belisha rose to defend himself but was drowned out by guffaws. Churchill went on to say that Britain now produces more tanks every month than the nation owned when Hore-Belisha left the War Office. "Our intelligence service," he added, "was thought...
Engineers of the German Union for Colonial Technique are preparing a 50-year plan for Africa "on a scientific basis and, for the time being, without regard to the political constellation." Root ideas of the plan are those of Geophysicist Hermann Soergel of Munich. A conservation specialist, Herr Soergel points to the "tragic desiccation" of Africa caused by the fact that many rivers-such as the Orange, Cunene, Zambezi, Limpopo-once watered great interior basins, but have gradually gnawed through mountain ridges and now empty into the sea. Herr Soergel would rehydrate Africa by several giant schemes...
...better homes," the Transcript for 109 years was controlled by the family of Henry Worthington Button. In its antediluvian quarters across from the Old South Meeting House, the editorial offices of the Transcript reminded visitors of the sedate reading rooms of the Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than...
Unlike the Draft Act of 1917, the present Selective Training and Service Act provides for those who conscientiously object without regard to any religious sect or organization. According to a memorandum by President Roosevelt sent to Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, national director of selective service, the basis of deferment from combatant military and service is to be not only "religious training" but also "belief...