Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For five hours after this proclamation was issued, the U. S. lived by the rules of traditional Neutrality. Plane makers continued to speed battle craft toward embarkation points for Great Britain and France. Makers of guns, bombs, shells, gas, powder, etc. could have done the same had they had shipments...
Franklin Roosevelt frankly proposed letting the U. S. be an arsenal for the Allies (at good pay) while neutrally offering Germany the materials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality's paradoxes was aimed at bringing Congress to the same view. Such...
From one point of view, Joe Kennedy is a common denominator of the U. S. businessman - "safe," "middle-of-the-road," a horse-trader at heart, with one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children. But he is a super common denominator, uncommonly commonsensible, stiletto...
The chiefs of the Allied Armies, Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin and towering (6 ft. 4 in.) General Sir Edmund ("Tiny") Ironside, came together with their staffs on French soil last week. The English Channel was closed south of the Downs by a minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund...
What is propaganda? Once the word meant nothing more than the legitimate promulgation of ideas. World War I and the methods of totalitarian governments later gave the word a new meaning, linked it to organized, wide-scale lying, the deliberate manufacture of atrocity stories, misrepresentation of enemy aims, minimizing of...