Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other respects fascism appeared to have the upper hand. Reliable reports indicated that German munitions are now being shipped secretly to Brazil via Italy and Spain. But the battle for peaceful trade was even more critical. A number of Yankee exporters who, after the war began, rushed to get into the South American trade, failed to take the precaution of hiring Brazilian agents with references from U. S. firms. As a result many of them hired Nazi undercover agents, who quickly reported to headquarters the prices quoted by the U. S. firms so that Germans could underbid...
...Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision the necessities of the U. S.'s No. 1 modern military crisis, the work that has to be done to meet...
...last week Managing Editor Douglas DeVeny Martin answered his telephone, heard an irate subscriber shout something about a picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...
Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...
...Authors Lavine & Wechsler the most. Nazi propaganda they dismiss rather briefly as, on the whole, inept and ineffective. But they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England...