Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Republican leaders frantically telephoned Rushville begging their candidate to crack down, make a loud noise, blast the destroyer deal lock, stock & barrel. Once before Wendell Willkie had refused to champion what he believed to be bad policy in order to make a campaign issue-on that occasion he endorsed conscription. This time he was in a hotter spot. Some Republican leaders, isolationists by tradition and anxious to swat Roosevelt, saw in the destroyer deal an opportunity for him to seize a red hot emotional issue...
...long, hill-fringed inlet of Halifax, Nova Scotia, enough Canadian crews for six destroyers and enough crack Royal Navy men for ten, about 2,000 good sailors who could lay a hand on a new gear and feel its system right off, waited last week - as Winston Churchill explained later - by "the long arm of coincidence." Three days after the destroyer-base deal was announced, eight of the old U. S. destroyers, looking like absurd little floating factories with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British...
British warships from Alexandria took another point-blank crack at Marshal Graziani's expeditionary base at Bardia. During the week, the Italians claimed extension of their drive into Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...
...whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted to ask . . . how Ickes first got into the chips. . . . He said I had been a sports writer. . . . The answer is that he was a sports writer himself . . . but such a punk that he never made the grade. . . . Ickes has been extremely sensitive...
Four years ago, when Franklin Roosevelt won his second campaign for the Presidency by the greatest landslide in U. S. history, a major part of the press was against him. New Dealers made many a snide crack about the waning power of the press, created the impression that their man had romped home in spite of the concerted efforts of 85% of the nation's newspapers...