Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
While Dr. Gallup's doorbell-ringers sought a statistical answer to the question of whether or not people want the U. S. to participate in a world conference to avert war, TIME through its correspondents and news services traced a contour map of U. S. public opinion. Object: to break down Dr. Gallup's national totals into the kinds and degrees of war sentiment dominant in the U. S. last week prior to Franklin Roosevelt's dramatic peace invitation to the Dictators...
...coax the Soviet Union into the Grand Alliance was a ticklish business. The last thing the Polish and Rumanian Governments want is a Red Army on their soil, even one fighting in their defense. They are more than willing, however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told...
When F. D. R. you want to sock, Page Lippmann, Johnson, Kent or Krock...
...Want some Sea food, Mama