Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They were drastic. It was admitted that the city's docks, which previously carried one-third of Britain's overseas trade, were mangled beyond use. It was further apparent that railroads, which in default of London's docks would have to carry goods to & from other ports...
The British did not deny using the cards. They said that the leaves had been used to set fire to military stores standing in open dumps, in arsenals, in railway cars on sidings, in trucks, or in woods. Sincerely regretful of the costly blight which had come upon Propaganda Minister...
Shrewd Pierre Laval did himself no harm in getting Weygand out of the Cabinet, for it has been known around Vichy for some time that General Weygand aspired to run the French State himself, muttering, "When will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval...
Einstein's message was the only false note of the entire conference after its chairman, President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary, key-noted its aims: "Our failure to harmonize science, philosophy and religion in their true relation to the democratic way of life has been a catastrophe...