Word: velt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Bob Wood was sympathetic with the New Deal. He voted for Roose velt twice, approved AAA, SEC, Social Security, many another reform. But he began to part company with the New Deal. He gagged at the Third Term. He gagged at Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. When America First gave him something political to work for, he threw himself into it with a will...
...Much Time? The people likewise seemed to acquiesce in what Mr. Roose velt has proposed. Yet they were certainly not yet aware of what it all meant. Even the officials around the President were in credibly confused. (The War Department for years has studied the sources, short ages, availability of essential materials, yet no two sets of figures agreed.) Presidential advisers hardly knew whether to take the 50,000 plane figure literally ("That just helps abroad. My God. we don't know whether it will be 10,000, 50,000 or 100,000"). Said Chief of Staff Marshall this...