Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Weekly declared: "There are millions of Americans who do not think President Roosevelt is indispensable, who believe that the wel fare and security of the United States will be better insured by the election of Mr. Willkie. . . ." The Right to Woo. All of this added up to a large amount of potential Willkie strength in the South, but it did not add up as yet to a single Southern vote for Willkie in the Electoral College. Whether such anti-New Deal sentiment will be converted into Willkie votes depends entirely on what sort of campaign Candidate Willkie puts...
Many a doctor will tell you that his calling is a hard one, but at least he can say that he is his own man. He can determine the size and nature of his practice, fix the amount of his fees, take time off for a fishing trip whenever he can afford to (and the state of his patients permits). He dreads the phrases "state medicine," "group medicine," "collective medicine," as devilish harbingers of a day when he will be a mere salaried employe, taking the jobs and patients he is told...
...receiving Admiral Yonai's resignation, the Emperor summoned to his seaside resort Marquis Koichi Kido, his new Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, traditional adviser on choice of officials. Marquis Kido, who is barely five feet tall, weighs only 120 pounds, requires only two-thirds of the orthodox amount of silk for a kimono, and has such tiny feet that he has to buy children's shoes, humbly begged a short period of reflection. The period was as short as he is, for Marquis Kido's mind was all made up. So was the Emperor...
...Chinese willow, the Gissimo sometimes flies into sudden noisy furies. The BBC report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons...
About Sept. 1 he plans to launch a new promotion drive. On it and the amount of new reader-appeal he can put into his paper will probably hang the fate of his experiment in journalism...