Word: circularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's little that is revolutionary in the YCL circular. In fact, even such a conservative as Mr. Vandenberg could probably read most of it without a change of pulse. Anyone can watch the stock market reports, and recent activities in some key industries such as steel and machine tools, and comparing these indices with the war news, conclude that American business is flirting with war profits. It doesn't take a clairvoyant, or a Marxist, to see that last September's Neutrality Act fitted in beautifully with the desires of American big business. And a nation taught to recoil...
...circular sent to newspapers and persons interested in the government flying course, the Committee on Militarism quoted from Congressional debates to show that the Civilian Aeronautics Authority is "civilian" in name only and is very closely allied with the Army and Navy...
...China, where for a time he seemed to be close to the late Warlord Wu Pei-fu. About the time his son was executed in England for murdering a brewer's assistant, Trebitsch Lincoln became a Buddhist. He had his bullet pate shaved and branded with the twelve circular symbols of the Buddhist wheel of life, took the name of Chao Kung. He made a trip to Germany (where he was jailed for an old debt), later accumulated some white followers, kept on the move. In 1938, he turned up again in Shanghai, with a beard...
...steamship brokers lately received a circular letter from one August Bolten, marine agent of Hamburg, Germany, calmly offering for charter or sale a dozen Nazi ships tied up in Western Hemisphere ports since war began. Herr Bolten said that these ships were available for "cash in U. S. dollars or other first-class neutral value." He found no quick takers in Manhattan, where idle U. S. tonnage was still seeking employment, and where everyone is well aware that the Allies will not recognize any shifts of nationality made by German ships after Sept...