Word: foe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This change of tone suggested that perhaps Franklin Roosevelt had really touched the Axis' quick with his increasing and increasingly pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
...able hands of two eminent, conservative Republican lawyers - State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 42, and onetime New York City Corporation Counsel Paul Windels. Mr. Windels went to work in Brooklyn College, was warmly welcomed by its tall, tweedy president, Harry D. Gideonse (pronounced Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their complaints: Mr. Gideonse once entered a restaurant through a picket line...
...more Greek column pushed up across the Kalamas River out of Epirus, driving the last invader from Greek soil and threatening to wipe him out of southern Albania as well. With the Italians in retreat everywhere, the ultimate object of all the Greek columns was to cut off their foe from his ports of escape...
Died. Viscount Craigavon, 69, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since the Ulster Government's establishment in 1920, implacable foe of Irish independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen...
This week U. S. Business, long a whole sale foe of the New Deal, put its feelings in particular form. They were not all black. Ignoring That Man, the managers of U. S. industry told which of his measures they liked, which they disliked. If businessmen and New Dealers are to cooperate more closely in Term III than in Terms I & II, the views expressed by businessmen this week were a good basis for a practical agenda...