Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moves. Administration supporters downtown and on Capitol Hill already had their jackknives out, were busily whittling away at the rotten wood of the Neutrality Act. Secretary of State Cordell Hull had already announced that he favored drastic modification or repeal, had said that the Act was as likely to get the U.S. in the war as keep...
According to their stories, they sickened on rotten food. In crude bunks they lay for days, some of them stricken with fever. Six died. Many slept in lifeboats (left) rather than endure the stinking hold. One physician said that it was a "miracle" no epidemic broke out. They nicknamed their ship the Nevermore...
...broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...Church cannot be held blameless for the present "rotten state of economic affairs" because the Church did not act soon enough or strongly enough to avert...
...Orchestra Hall on a sweltering night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000. Nominally called to support Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, the meeting centered its fire almost exclusively on the Tribune. Not since 1936 election-night crowds burned Tribunes in the middle of State Street and rotten-egged the Tribune building had Chicagoans erupted in such hot anti-Tribune wrath...