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...remembered how, in his brief former Presidency during the great depression, he had tried to up wages, make more jobs. His earnest voice, his fervid sermons against corruption, his glowing talk of more schools and better roads, of Pan American solidarity and Cuba for the Cubans, sparked an emotional tinder. Peasant women knelt before him, held up their babies for his touch. Many believed the myth that "honest Grau" would end taxes, rent, electric and water bills...
Unanimously the 55 companies claimed that the new venture was unnecessary. They called it a "violation of the Atlantic Charter"(which postulates equal access to the world's natural resources by all nations), and a dangerous U.S. Government commitment in one of the world's tinder-box areas...
What care I that some millions of wretched Israelites died tinder Pharaoh's lash or Egypt's sun? It was well that they died that I might have the pyramids to look on, or to fill a musing hour with wonderment...
...motorist told the FBI, which quietly began investigating one of the country's biggest makers of aluminum castings for war planes, tanks and ships-the National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Co. The FBI's findings caused a grand jury to issue the first indictments against U.S. businessmen tinder the World War I Sabotage...
When the Graduate School of Education moved in, they found that the old building had been condemned by the fire marshal. A tinder-box of old spider webs, and wood, it was declared definitely unfit for habitation...