Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull cavorting in a china shop was nothing to the stir raised last week when a china merchant lumbered into a bull pen. The china merchant was big, bluff Colonel the Right Honorable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, great-great-great-grandson of the Josiah Wedgwood who founded Britain's famed pottery works. The bull pen was Congress...
...silence to start a counterattack. They were led by Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Ever since he was beaten in the Supreme Court fight in 1937 by Burt Wheeler and his forces, the President has obviously been a little afraid of the trouble that Wheeler could stir up. Senator Wheeler last week had plenty of ammunition for his attack, one revelation, one prophecy, one dare, one warning and (with Senator Taft) one report...
With equal candor the President went on: The move into Iceland might precipitate fighting but he did not think so. He knew that his action would stir up a furor at home and he would be accused of taking an offensive step. But the British had notified him some time before that they needed the forces now in Iceland and intended to remove them. To leave Iceland unoccupied would be an easy opportunity for Germany to seize the island. With 75% of U.S. aid to Britain going over the northern sea route past Iceland's front door, the result...
...Greece and Crete, had sent some mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters in Palestine; spend a day at his desk in Cairo. Now he was not as sharp as he had been: his Syrian effort was going lazily...
...Chaos. Mr. Replogle's finger was pointed not so much at the automakers as at the indecision of the Government's handling of defense to date. It took the Army, the Navy and OPACS to stir OPM to action on autos. Although Detroit has complained bitterly about the recent rumors of a flat 50% cut in '42 production, no motormaker protested at last week's meeting. Reason: there was hope that chaos, at least, might be over. Detroit was to have an advisory say in how its own transition from automaking to munitions-making could best...