Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when members left the building, found crowds singing Rule Britannia outside, it was stamped with the quality of grave decision that has marked the great crises of Parliament. Mr. Churchill did not speak. When the vote came he walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech, no less than in the news of war over London, was an acknowledgement that Churchill had been right. For six bitter, hog-ridden years he had pounded on his argument...
...Antwerp that held up the German advance on Paris in 1914, were brilliantly conceived, weakly executed. Purpose of the Dardanelles campaign as Churchill saw it was more than an attempt to help Russia gain access to the Mediterranean: it was to swing fence-sitting Italy to the Allied side, win the tremulous Balkans away from Germany. Defending himself after the failure with biting eloquence, Churchill used the phrase "gamble" in connection with the Naval Plan, later got an undeserved reputation of needlessly sacrificing...
...choice is still open. There is no truth in the plea that Hitler has gone too far to start over. By a single impulse of will power he could regain solid foundations of health and sanity. ... If there is friendly action we will match it on our side. If there is renewed aggression we will make...
Sure as shooting, in a big league war, there would be an almighty jam around the dials of radios which might hear propaganda and news from the other side. Hedging Italy's borders, for example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected of sending off streams of dashes to hedge off U. S. short-wave radio transmissions to Italy. Each such transmitter, radio engineers know, could be operated to transmit a "sawtooth" signal which could affect all broadcasting on a band 300 kilocycles wide (as much air space...
...retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded...