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There followed those acts "short of war": cash & carry, Lend-Lease, the 50 destroyers and one million rifles to help Britain save herself after Dunkirk; the peacetime draft; the declaration of "emergency," the branding of Germany as an "international outlaw" in June...
...keep the U.S. out by a daring support of its periled friends, will be historians' debating ground for years to come. The strength of the opposition and the political daring of what he did, could be measured by the one-vote margin in the House, when the draft came up for extension four months before Pearl Harbor...
...small town parishes). An unusual duty came when King George and Queen Elizabeth sent the church a morocco-bound copy of the King James Version of the Bible as a memento of their 1939 visit. Senior Warden Roosevelt and Vestryman Gerald Morgan were appointed a committee of two to draft a suitable note of thanks...
...watered-down bill would have frozen workers in essential jobs in areas where labor is short, would have fixed employment ceilings to prevent labor hoarding, would have made employers and employes alike liable to penalties. No labor draft, it was as far as Congress got in the face of pressure from all segments of organized labor, the N.A.M. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The vote came six days after Franklin Roosevelt had declared that defeat of the measure would make "the successful conduct of the war even more difficult...
...bark-and by the 1840s, quinine" in heroic doses. One doctor reported a patient who took so much calomel that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...