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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Answer: "War aim No. 1 is peace itself. . . . Once we get it, we want to 'live and let live.' That applies to the German people as well as to anybody else. But not to the German war machine, which must be destroyed and put out of existence...
...critic of the New York Journal & American). The audience roared when Brown replied: "Of course, I'm really not John Anderson at all; I'm George Bernard Shaw, Mr. O'Neill." At lecture's end Professor Clark, puzzled but persistent, announced that Mr. Anderson would answer questions. Down came the house again when the professor read off the first one: "When is John Mason Brown going to speak...
...ment ain't to answer...
Ever since the U. S. Government began building big Bonneville Dam (potential capacity: 518,400 kilowatts) and bigger Grand Coulee Dam (1,890,000 kilowatts) on the nonindustrialized Columbia River, Northwesterners have wondered who was going to buy the power. Last Christmas they got an initial answer: Aluminum Co. of America contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant near Portland, buy 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville juice...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...