Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...extracted his familiar pince-nez with the heavy black ribbon, put them on, and read a prepared statement: "The reported alliance does not . . . substantially alter a situation which has existed for several years. Announcement of the alliance merely makes clear to all a relationship which has long existed in effect and to which this Government has repeatedly called attention...
...front in 1917 faced front again. California's Warren Atherton, the Legion's defense committee, brought out a resolution urging every practicable aid to Great Britain and China, and saying, "If we have to fight, let's fight beyond our shores before any foe can effect invasion...
...Franklin Roosevelt, in effect, revived the War Industries Board under a new name: The National Defense Advisory Commission. The President desperately needed production to bolster his country's ailing defenses. To be his Production Chief he chose the nation's No. 1 production man: bulky, blue-eyed, hard-headed William S. Knudsen, General Motors' president, who has turned out more automobiles a year than anyone in the world...
...orders from Vichy. In that town of pathetic, hollow words Foreign Minister Baudouin reported to Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain that all fighting had ceased. "Hence," continued the Foreign Minister, who once made a fortune out of Indo-China, "the French-Japanese accord now goes into effect in the friendly, trustful spirit which prevailed at its establishment...
General de Gaulle's Free French troops and vessels opened fire on the town. During the night they tried several times to effect a landing on Rufisque beach across the bay, but each time machine-gun fire drove them back. The commander of the supporting British squadron threatened attack unless the town gave in. Governor General Pierre Boisson, who lost a leg fighting the Germans in 1917, signaled in reply: "France has confided Dakar to me, and I shall defend it to the end." British guns spoke. Their conversation touched the Governor General's house, the town radio...