Word: needless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
More noteworthy was the minority report of Justice Frank Murphy. Said he: "[Yamashita] was rushed to trial under an improper charge, given insufficient time to prepare an adequate defense . . . and summarily sentenced to be hanged. In all this needless and unseemly haste there was no serious attempt to charge or to prove that he committed a recognized violation of the laws...
Never has more mud been pumped, slushed, squirted and squooshed, and I beg to report that the Connecticut clam is far mightier than the slush pump. Needless to say, it will take many years for TIME to regain my confidence after this disappointing experience...
...Beware most strictly of any outbursts of emotion that may engender needless complications, of any fraternal contention. . . . Cultivate the ways of rectitude, nobility of spirit, and work with resolution so that you may enhance the innate glory of the Imperial State and keep pace with the progress of the world." In the homes, shops and offices of Japan the people listened. "Upon hearing his voice," reported Domei, "the 100,000,000 prostrated themselves on the ground and shed bitter tears of self-examination and self-reproach...
...plants doing war work. This stand seemed to add new strike threats to automakers' other reconversion bogies. But labor said no-it would mean fewer strikes. Reason: collective bargaining machinery, which has rusted under cover of the war emergency, will again be used to settle disputes, thus avoiding needless walkouts...