Word: victorye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In assessing his chances of victory last week, Vandenberg was well aware, as were all the Senate's elders, that: 1) if the President is to win, he should do it in 30 days, for a dragged-out fight makes embargo-repeal unlikely unless such potential horrors as the...
*Mrs. Vandenberg, Grandson "Duke" Knight, the Senator, Mrs. Edward Pfeiffer (daughters), Son Arthur Jr. *This mail alone shifted early odds, favoring a quick Presidential victory, to even-Stephen. There was some money available at 1-to-2 Franklin Roosevelt would lose this fight.
There, in his study of politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries...
"We will not permit certain individuals to enrich themselves while others give their lifeblood. We are calm and resolved. We are not haunted like our enemies by fear of a long war. We think only of one thing: Complete victory. That victory we will consider won when we can give...
Douhet believed that early control of the air is essential for quick victory. This was proved in Spain, where Germany tested many theories and where Franco took two years to get control of the air, then won hands down. By 1937, when General Brauchitsch took command at Leipzig, it was...