Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds, the effect of Willkie on them-until their voices grew hoarse with contention, as the candidate's grew husky with campaigning. Tired after eleven days of travel, variously afflicted with colds and indigestion, the wisecracks all laughed at, the arguments all heard before, they were in no mood for history. If they were...
...Beverly Hills voice physician, Dr. Harold Barnard, warned him a hundred times to slow down, talk less. Neither pleading nor orders had effect. Said Dr. Barnard for the umptieth time: "He needs a policeman, not a doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that...
...Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...
...Draft. Although 60.2% of the executives felt that conscription would work some hardship on their business (6% said it would have a seriously adverse effect), they were solidly (84.1%) in favor...
...kept alive.' " Hoare's record includes negotiating, without the knowledge of the French, the British-German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out in the Hoare-Laval agreement. In fact, "as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare passed from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...