Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot prophesy the immediate economic effect of this new war on our nation. But I do say that no American has the moral right to profiteer at the expense either of his fellow-citizens or of the men, women and children who are living and dying in the midst of war in Europe...
...conclusion: "I have said not once but many times that I have seen war and that I hate war. I say that again and again...
...other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
...jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near Poplarville, Miss...
...guns began to go off, monarchs and ministers, dictators and presidents, said what they had to say. Soon the tumult of war would be too loud to let the world hear their voices. The headlines of papers blurred and ran together-Hitler said. . . . Daladier said. . . . Chamberlain told the House of Commons. . . . Mackenzie King announced-then changed overnight. The great names and grave words disappeared. The bombing of ships and cities, clashes on the Western Front, maneuvers on the plains of Poland, overflowed in the news...