Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Please note the enclosed picture from TIME, Sept. 23, and explain how Hitler got to Buckingham Palace in time to help clear away the debris. Maybe he didn't miss the bus after...
...President's desk for signature. The bill had been ordered by the President two months ago to prevent war millionaires. Far from doing that, shouted Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, "this bill sets up a new class of war millionaires-namely, so-called tax experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself, in signing the bill, was this week expected to remark on its shortcomings...
Admitting that she had never done any work on men's clothes whatsoever, she went on to explain what she would do if she could design their clothes for them. "You're all so utilitarian," she complained, looking disgustedly at the clothes of the men in the room. "For instance, you pick your materials for the reason that they won't show dirt! What you should do is to try to be less drab...
Committee Chairman Guy Mark Gillette (Democrat of Iowa) tried to explain that Senator Miller had had to resign because of his wife's illness. He had been unable to get anyone to fill his place. Roared Senator Tobey: "All through his career Hague seems to have been able to stop investigations just in the nick of time. But before God we're going to do our duty...
...Crimson has, however, failed to explain its distinction between aid to Britain on the one hand, and possible intervention. Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy is termed risky; if it is "risky" to send 50 over-aged destroyers to England in exchange for needed defense bases, what aid can be sent without involving a risk? At what point will the Crimson make the distinction...