Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...called New Deal "militants" in the Senate (Minton, Lee, Pepper, Wagner) not one has the force & fury to attract Franklin Roosevelt. But there is another reason for this insulation from Congress: Mr. Roosevelt after seven years of New Deal politicking is genuinely, desperately bored with professional politicians as a class...
France, said Laval, will ban all strikes and lockouts; will banish "international doctrines," bar from power any politician who ever played with the Popular Front of Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier; will oppose any effort to stimulate class consciousness, do all in its power to insure "a friendly press." Laval's France is through being "a humanitarian crusader for other nations," will hereafter look out for herself alone. By way of looking after France's interest, the Pétain Government sent Great Britain, France's former ally, a demand for reparations for the damage done...
...destroyers, and it has no landplane base. Near by at Barbados the British have a battleship anchorage, a small airdrome and a tiny dry dock (too small for destroyers). At France's Martinique there is a small naval and submarine base, a destroyer dry dock. But of first-class base facilities the Lesser Antilles have none. And it is in this section of the hook that an invader reaching for the Canal would almost inevitably make his strongest effort. Between its islands are scores of deep passages, in its coves thousands of spots from which destroyers, cruisers and patrol...
...airmen are chosen from students (and a few nonstudents) aged 18 to 26. Girls are limited to 3% of each class. All pass a strict physical examination, and applicants under 21 must have their parents' consent. Students finishing the first installment of flying instruction have from 35 to 50 hours in the air, get a special Civilian Pilot Training certificate which licenses them to fly their own planes. This summer 1,000 promising students will be given $750 worth of secondary instruction. CAB also gives refresher courses to its primary instructors, and to rusty private and commercial pilots...
...mobilization of 17,000,000 Europeans is like the story of a distant railway wreck, a fire in a house far away. Then one day Joe Kovacs gets a letter with a foreign stamp, from Austria, and his wife brings it to him at work. Joe Kovacs' class has been called, his fatherland has ordered him to arms, and Joe must go. At the Plaza Theatre that night, sitting with his neighbors for the last time, Joe sees the uniformed man with the withered arm jerkily strutting in a newsreel...