Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Taxis are fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt vetoed the Logan-Walter bill in scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
...Some Reds are just unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
This was not forthcoming last week. Having lost from one-fifth to one-quarter of all his troops-and probably having nearly half his Army so disorganized as to be out of action-Marshal Graziani was in turn praying for help from home. The disorganization of his armies was the more complete in that most of their attack equipment, massed in the east for a drive on Alexandria and Cairo, had been lost. (The British were astonished at how heavily the Italians had planned to travel, and also at curious shortages in the equipment, especially steel helmets, barbed wire.) Graziani...
Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...