Word: closely
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...NOMINATE FOR HIS THIRD TERM AS MAN OF THE YEAR FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. THERE IS NO CLOSE SECOND...
Sidney Hillman was born in Zagare, Lithuania, then part of Russia, second of seven children of a Jewish merchant. He studied to be a rabbi, got too close to a workers' movement, spent ten months in jail, finally fled Russia for England. From there he migrated to Chicago, worked for 18 months as a clerk, got a job as an apprentice cutter with Hart Schaffner & Marx which paid, after three years, $11 a week. A strike at the plant plunged him into labor struggles. In 1914 he became first president of an infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been president...
Immediate effect of the Book of Lynch on U. S. infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's end will be demoted to the awkward squad...
...signers were Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy, Ambassador Saburo Kurusu for Japan, Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky for Hungary. Adolf Hitler was not present in person, but he was close by in the Imperial Hotel, where he held a happy levee after the signing was over...
...rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world of reality. From the Western Front he wrote his wife: "Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity...