Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Chamber launched the "Birmingham plan" to ease discharged service men into civilian life. The plan was as root-simple as Frank Rushton's telephone call to Alabama Power's Martin...
Many of these conditions antedate President Juan Antonio Rios. Their root causes lie deep in an anciently depressed economy. But informed Chileans agree that amiable, pliant President Rios could have done much more than he has even tried to do to stem the immediate effects of inflation. He has abundant powers, recently augmented by a long-pending economic-control bill. But he has hesitated to offend any loud, well-organized pressure group such as the landowners (Farm Bloc) or the middlemen (Little Business). Should Chile turn out to be another feeding ground for Fascism, part of the blame must rest...
Publication of the details was delayed until this week. But the root fact of the treaty was already known: it embodied a common policy of unyielding resistance to any new German aggression, a common approach to the reshaping of Europe. Prewar Czechoslovakia had divided its dependence between Russia, Britain, France, the Little Entente (with Yugoslavia and Rumania). All failed her. Postwar Czechoslovakia, in the person of Eduard Benes, looks first to postwar Russia...
...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
Said one report from the front: "The Germans are very allergic to [it]. We would root them out of their foxholes with well-placed rounds of phosphorus and when we had them above ground we plastered them with HE [high explosive]. We killed large numbers of them in that way and they sure dreaded the mortars. . . . Letters taken from prisoners have shown that the Germans fear...