Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaders McNary and Martin are old hands at bomb-plotting (TIME, July 31). But last week they were engaged in their biggest project. For the dynamiting of Cordell Hull's trade agreements might also blow up the Presidential prospects of Mr. Hull-and he is the only man in sight on whom Democrats of all shades can compromise as a candidate this year...
...Harvard, M. I. T. and Radcliffe shuddered in unison as they thought of the thousands of books and maps they might have to mutilate. Libertarians shuddered for the newspapers they might not be permitted to read. In Chicago, the conventioning American Library Association cried: "The Cambridge action is a blow to democracy and an infringe ment on the freedom of the press...
Exclaimed John Schroeder, Manhattan manager of North German Lloyd, when he heard of the scuttling: "Oh, my God. It's one blow after another!" Because their ship was unarmed, the Columbus' crew, taken to Ellis Island, could look forward to early freedom, as "distressed" mariners. Less clear was the status of the Nazi freighter Arauca (see p. 8), which brought the war close home to Florida pleasure seekers last week by running inside the three-mile limit off Fort Lauderdale (20 miles north of Miami), just in time to escape capture by H.M.S. Orion (cruiser...
...great blow," moaned 77-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coach at the little College of the Pacific. "I'm foolish enough to believe the action wouldn't have happened had I been there...