Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Norris was almost alone in his interpretation of why the U. S. went to war. By 1936 a vast army of people and politicians, still sick and sore with the memory of what their country had gone through, were ready to agree with him. In a time of national enthusiasm for peace and neutrality, any stumpster could cry that the U. S. went to war "to save the skins of its bankers." The opportunity to accuse munitions makers and international bankers of having shoved the U. S. into a foreign war for their own selfish interests was too good...
...really don't know," replied Vickers' board chairman. "He brought a vast amount of business to Vickers for 20 years. Since 1924 he has taken no part in the activities of Vickers or our associates except as one of our agents in regard to the Spanish business...
...Among the nations of the great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good neighbor has happily prevailed. . . . There is neither war, nor rumor of war, nor desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening...
...dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they wrongfully seek to carry the property and the interests entrusted to them into the arena of partisan politics. . . . "They engage in vast propaganda to spread fear and discord among the people-they would 'gang up' against the people's liberties...
...girl, he a music hall female impersonator. He catches cold, loses his voice, induces her to take his place. She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient. Offstage she wears gentlemen's clothes, on-stage appears in vast glittering production numbers...