Word: directives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week, U. S. interest in the campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...
Eggs & Tomatoes. Democrats replied in kind. As Publicity Director Charles Michelson handed them up, National Chairman Edward Flynn grabbed them and tossed them out: Republicans were trying to "buy" the election. Republicans were operating in direct violation of the Hatch...
...Newly renovated was the Prohibition Party, which met in convention last spring, decided that one way to solve the relief problem was to direct into other channels $5,000,000,000 annually-spent in the U. S. for liquor. Nominated for President was goateed Roger Ward Babson, Wellesley Hills (Mass.) statistician, who forlorn-hopefully declared: "I have nothing to offer the American people except the privilege of sacrificing themselves for the common good. . . ." For Vice President: Edgar Vaughn Moorman, wealthy Illinois feed...
Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey, who prepared the draft machinery and stood by to teach Director Dykstra its ins & outs...
Because these resolute Americans, controlling vital news outlets from the unique and unmanageable city-state of Shanghai, stand square in the road of Japanese conquest. For Japan must control the mind and morale of its subject peoples, must direct world-thinking the Japanese way, if it is ever to realize the dream of a "Greater East Asia"--domination of China, India, the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and all the East Indies including the Philippines...