Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Having jacked his legislative score to an even 100 bills, Jack Dempsey, hale & hearty at 61, indicated that he would leave the House, run for the Senate in the fall. His opponent: New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, whose relatives were once involved in a WPA scandal (they were later tried and acquitted), thoroughly disapproved of the Hatch Bill from the start...
...only alternative to allowing South America to fall into a victorious Hitler's economic lap is to form a hemisphere cartel to even up the bargaining power between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, between the Americas and the totalitarian States. The U. S. would have to foot the bill for such a program, possibly by some sort of AAA. Whether South America will be willing to place her economic future in U. S. hands at the forthcoming Havana Conference is uncertain...
...likelihood that part, perhaps a substantial part of the British Fleet would be lost in the fighting around the British Isles. Even if the bulk of the British Home Fleet should be surrendered, units stationed in the Mediterranean, colonies and dominions, might well escape German hands. The practical hypotheses fall into three classes...
...long days wore on the strain became greater. Altogether four people went out of their minds. . . ." But at Oran the refugees' hopes lifted, only to fall again as the news of France's surrender made the possibility of internment imminent. "The passengers were exhausted. The conditions were bad. With insufficient and unsuitable food there was danger of epidemic. Some of the older people were only just alive...
Expecting the skies to fall at any moment with a Nazi invasion, the British Government last fortnight began to tell English moppets how the war was shaping up. Aired over all BBC stations were brief news bulletins addressed to children from 10 to 15. Interspersed with mild little jokes and jingles (Making jam, preserving fruits, takes your mind off parachutes), the BBC bulletins were full of hearty father's-knee reassurance. Discussing the death of Italo Balbo, a BBC announcer chattily inquired of his juvenile audience: "What happened to him? Was it an accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn...