Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a gawky, sallow-faced man of 39 stood in the U. S. Immigration station on San Francisco's Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
...into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes...
With Europe's Armies reaching a mobilized peak of 8,000,000 men this month, the definition of diplomatic phrases had become far less important than the exchange of honest facts. On the eve of the Moscow consultations, all three military missions seemed prepared to go the whole way. When general staffs exchange data, it is virtually certain that diplomatic agreements are signed or nearly signed. It looked, last week, as if the Peace Front had passed from the brass hat to the brass tacks stage...
...First and Second German armies through which British and French troops, advancing on schedule, poured the next day. The Second German Army retreated north and east, separated further from Kluck's men, who were now being attacked from the rear. Three days later, faced with disaster, the whole German front withdrew, retreated 60 miles in five days, abandoned the attack on Paris, lost the chance of a lightning victory and with it the World...
...quarter of a century ago $3,000,000,000 was three times the U. S. national debt. The effect of such huge purchases was stupendous. Of the whole period, 1916 was the bonanza high point; common stocks of sixty-eight major U. S. industrials paid a total of $724,900,000 to investors during that year. Du Pont, Hercules Powder Co., Remington Arms, Savage, and Winchester Arms all got big Allied orders for munitions. U. S. Steel converted a deficit of $1,700,000 before common dividends in 1914 to a net for common...