Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...task of Franklin Roosevelt in accepting the Third Term nomination was colossal-it was to explain why a move that Washington and Jefferson had thought improper was necessary and right for him. The task of Wendell Willkie's acceptance was almost as great-it was to challenge Franklin Roosevelt without intensifying class and party hostilities, without plunging the U. S. into a desperate political fight over foreign policy, without arousing the bitterness that would weaken U. S. defense. There was a tone to be set for a critical campaign. And there was a huge, hot and widely traveled crowd...
...well qualified as any expert observer to explain how it had happened was elegant, wealthy, bald-headed Mr. Bullitt, who had seen Paris fall. No one doubted that his words had first been well weighed by Mr. Roosevelt. But never before had a U. S. Ambassador, a member of the Administration, been permitted to talk on international affairs with such undiplomatic, brutal bluntness. Mr. Bullitt minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall...
...Westrick, who had made the mistake of trying to conceal his identity and whereabouts (apparently for the honest reason that he was harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also...
...turn of Thomas & Co. stockholders to grouse at the Federation-controlled Management. Gathering in the River Plate House in Finsbury Circus, London, they wanted to know why, since Firth was ousted, their once profitable stock had paid no dividend. Chairman the Earl of Dudley did his best to explain. "It's imperative that a strong liquid position should be maintained. . . . Your directors regret that in spite of the substantial increase in profits it has not been possible for a dividend to be paid. ..." He spoke foggily of the dealings between the Steel Control Committee and Sir William, ended with...
...great Richard and a soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation, and he commanded 70,000 industrial workers, farmers and soldiers to enjoy it before it closed at the end of July. Last week he sat among munitions workers and disabled soldiers...