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Meanwhile a growing list of organizations urged immediate aid to the Allies "Without stint or fear of consequences." The list ranged from the Greater Cleveland Council, Smaller Business of America, Inc. to the Young Women's Republican Club of New York. It included the German-American Congress for Democracy (with 2,000 New York City members to begin with, and branches being organized in six other States), the 66th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association (see pg. 42-the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, Kansas county citizens' defense councils. Governors were for it-Lehman of New York, Stark...
...words which had a more timely ring were Woodrow Wilson's: "There is, therefore, but one response possible from us: Force, Force, to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world. . . ." Was there not an echo from Franklin Roosevelt, last week: "We shall be able to keep that way [of peace] open only if we are prepared to meet force with force if challenge is ever made...
...fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into an illegal ell. Some local throwbacks actually hired comrades to work their required stint on the collective fields while they devoted all their time to their own acres...
...late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department and the White House...