Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the President shut his door. He was confident that he was armed with the weapon of popular support as he sat down, in seclusion, to write his message to the 77th Congress...
...small, plain, ash-blonde girl, Betty resembles anything but a movie siren. But she makes the most of her looks, has developed a technique well-suited to the camera. Her eyes are her principal dramatic weapon, and she can make a raised or lowered eyelid as articulate as a sweeping gesture. She rarely cracks her poker face, and this frozen countenance subtracts several years from her appearance. It also makes her look as if she were hiding some painful mental torture. Said one friend: "Until you get to know her, you think...
...more bottle necks per week than anything else. But Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would take off that aid "the silly, foolish dollar sign." He had prepared the public for whatever concrete legislation may be proposed. He was still working day & night with the only immediately effective U. S. weapons: dollars and diplomacy. The nation would soon become a gigantic arsenal. Preparedness was to be all-out preparedness. The Budget soon to go to Congress might be an Anglo-American budget. Whether or not it would ever be used to save England, the U. S. would forge a worthy weapon...
Guileless Senator Logan died, but his fleabite, the Logan-Walter bill, remained to threaten the New Deal with gangrene. Anti-New Dealers saw in the bill a weapon with which to assassinate such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage-&-Hour Division. With them were plenty of other men who were honestly outraged by the New Deal's bureaucratic stupidities and abuses...
...madhouse sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...