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...Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...Deal leadership said we had been drifting. It would give us a planned direction. We were in the grip of depression. It would give us a planned recovery. We were unstable. It would give us a planned stability. We were haunted by widespread unemployment. It would give us a planned re-employment. The living standards of part of our population were indefensibly low. It would give us a planned abundance...
...Allied Supreme War Council's spring strategy could be drawn last week, it was this: to continue holding Germany in a vise by land and sea; to help Finland resist Russia in the north; to make that resistance stronger, and at the same time tighten the vise-grip on Germany, by "formidably" threatening Russia on the southeast...
AMSTERDAM--Northeastern Europe suffered tonight in the paralyzing grip of the bitterest cold in more than 100 years and hundreds of persons evacuated homes in the face of crushing ice packs boiling up from ice-locked canals, rivers and seas...
...years ago brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...