Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt went further. He outlined in general terms an entirely new form of aid to Britain. At a press conference, after telling newsmen that there was "no news today." he held forth in monologue for 45 minutes. From it emerged the shape of his plan to aid Britain more directly without tangling in such political barbed wire as the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, for moves to amend either act would mean filiblustery months of debate in Congress while England was being bombed barren...
Said Magistrate Solomon, holding Madzenski in $1,000 bail: "This is the most unique form of larceny I've ever encountered. But it goes to show that dishonesty in any form is still a sucker's game...
...great comedian is in top form...
...prolonged for two to four years more, Europe will be in ruins and victor and vanquished will end up in some form of communism or national socialism. It is probable that Great Britain will be ruined, and, even if a victor, left in such a state of weakness that her empire would possibly disintegrate...
...James M. Spinning announced an answer to the problem of polluted textbooks. Goaded by Rugg-beaters (critics of widely used texts by Columbia Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others denounced as subversive The Man Without A Country, the World Almanac...