Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does the American journalist want America to win in a mad armaments race ? Fanning to a flame the unholy passions of millions in America against the peoples of two or three other large blocks of earth is one way to bring this about. . . . Does the American journalist want peace...
...Majority Leader Sam Rayburn (to the House): ". . . Wherever the frontier of America may be ... the people . . . want America to be prepared to defend that frontier."† Whereupon the House voted (367-to-15) to appropriate about $376,000,000 to up the U. S. Army Air Corps, from 2,320 to 5,500 planes, 21,500 to 45,000 men, otherwise flesh out the land forces. Next on the House Rearmament calendar: $52,000,000 for Guam and ten other naval bases...
...Homer Martin severed his ties with C. I. O. and John L. Lewis four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 6). Having had time to weigh the reaction among his rank & file, Rebel Martin last week professed to want only "an autonomous union" within C. I. O., where he is no longer wanted. Thus he apparently hoped to offset reports that he is thinking of lining up with A. F. of L.'s William Green, whom most autoworkers heartily distrust...
...theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...
After climbing four fights of stairs to see Gildersleeve, "member of the Committee," whose alleged job is to interview Freshmen who want to be admitted to Lowell House, one Yardling puffed: "Why in the world does a House Master live way up here...