Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge police officers have been ordered to launch a strenuous campaign designed to wipe out overnight parking in the vicinity of Harvard," Timothy F. Leahy, chief of police, announced yesterday...
Authors Mock & Larson also correct many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their...
...wall keeps things in, as well as out. With that in mind, the first emergency conference of the Western Hemisphere's nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies...
...what was expected," said a spokesman for Adolf Hitler, who expects no good of Franklin Roosevelt. The British press, dashed by the President's expressed aversion to all wars, including their present one, told their readers not to be impatient. Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Steve Early announced that overnight telegrams exceeded the response to any of the President's recent speeches. Implication: that the flood of anti-repeal letters and wires to Congress did not tell the whole story...
...changes all things. Last week even dull, staid British copywriters found, almost overnight, a whole new set of advertising appeals. Examples, new and revised...