Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday in Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post slogans. Sample: "Don't wipe your mouth on the tablecloth; use a paper napkin." Goodwillman Fairbanks was lionized by Rio society, cheered by 50,000 football fans. Asked by newspapermen why Hollywood presents so distorted a view of Latin-American life (see p. 34), quick-witted Actor Fairbanks replied that Hollywood often presented a pretty...
...about the same number near Tripoli, 600 miles farther west. From Tripoli to Bengasi was too long a haul over the desert either for reinforcement to come up by land or for Marshal Graziani to try to run for it. The main British worry was whether they could wipe Bengasi out before German serial assistance should become really effective. The presence of German planes in Sicily and Libya had effected the whole Mediterranean situation. Late in the week German planes bombed the entire British-held section of the North-Libyan cost, claiming a 10,000-ton ship at Bardia, three...
...make another tremendous paper profit to fill the hole in the budget left by deficit financing. Thus in 1933 F. D. R. made $2,800,000,000 by reducing the gold in the dollar to fifty-nine cents. $675,000,000 of that sum has already been used to wipe out part of the government debt; and the rest has been allocated to our Exchange Stabilization Fund. Suppose, though, that the President lowered the gold in the dollar to twenty or even to ten cents. F. D. R. might be able to show a surplus over relief and defense expenditures...
Thus briefly Franklin Roosevelt laid out his remedial changes for the U. S. defense setup. He left no doubt that, when his reorganization order was published, National Defense would finally have all the authority it has lacked to give it direction and speed, to wipe out confusion in priorities and procurement...
...churchman inside Germany prays privately for a Nazi defeat or at least a check to Hitler's power. Said a Catholic news dispatch from Geneva last month: "It is generally anticipated that in the case of a victorious war the Nazi regime would no longer hesitate to wipe out all vestiges of Christianity in Germany and try to establish a 'national church' under Nazi supervision which would be entirely based on the pagan conceptions of 'blood and soil...