Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt watched the People. Perhaps excepting Adolf Hitler, no man of his time knew so well how to read what he saw, guide his acts by what he read. And the People watched the President. Of all the great peoples on earth, only they were utterly free...
Every leader knows that to fight a war, whether for conquest or in self-defense, he must give the young men of his nation a cause so good and just that they are willing to be ripped apart by shrapnel, choked by gas, gored by bayonets without losing the will...
Unspeakable Weapons. Tucked elsewhere into the Führer's long and heated speech were his old claims that Poland started World War II incited by the Allies; that France was willing at the last moment to keep peace on terms proposed by Italy but was rushed by Britain...
> In the brass industry, rolling mills near Waterbury, Conn., Rome, N. Y., in Baltimore and in Detroit, for the first time since World War I worked three shifts a day. Yet production was limited because only a few U. S. brass rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line...
"And that is the reason"--this with an unusual amount of energy--"why I say there is no Harvard Man." The Vagabond whipped out the last two words with capitals, putting them in vocal italics. He was warming to his subject now, growing the warmer as the circle around him...