Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under This Root", the new play coming to the Plymouth Theatre for one week beginning next Monday, was written by a Harvard graduate and has another Cantabridgian in the east...
...Daughter of Joaquim Nabuco, who, with his great friend Elihu Root, created the scaffolding of Pan-Americanism...
Said the Times: "Money is the root of many of the evils of production. . . . Resentment about low wages ... is fanned by the belief that extra effort by the workers is helping to add to private profits as well as to the strength of our war machine. . . . Concern about the future is being given too prominent a place in the plans and activities of too many industrial concerns. . . . Even ministers shrink from upsetting normal trade practice. . . . Men of vision cannot fail to see that humanity is passing at this moment through the fire of social revolution as well as of universal...
Thailand was perhaps the key to the first phase of Japan's rape of the Pacific. Its conquest put the attackers in a key spot for two moves - south into Malaya or west into Burma, at the root of China's supply line...
...mountainous. It would run into Thailand's questionable Army and, eventually, into seasoned British and Indian troops. But, if successful, such an attack would have the merit of capturing Thailand's resources of rice and tin, of cutting off the Allies' aid to China at its root...