Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army in Africa, and these cards grew in power with Italy's reverses in the Mediterranean. So powerful had they become by last fortnight that Peyrouton could speak openly against Laval...
Worship of God. "I mean more than liturgy by that. I mean active acknowledgment by men of the will of God, the moral law of God, the justice and love of God-in their own lives and in the life of the world. The function of the Church is to prevent men from taking anything less than God as their ultimate concern...
...very best view Britons could take of last week's news was that Italy might fall out of the war, that internal dissatisfaction might force a separate peace. What, militarily, would the collapse of Italy mean for the British cause? It would not keep German bombers from the Isles. It would not necessarily mean that Britain could remove its entire Mediterranean Fleet for duty elsewhere (uncertain is the disposition of the rest of France's Navy, of Spain's not negligible fleet). But collapse of Italy would certainly relieve pressure, freeing troops, planes and some ships...
...sale did not mean that Climax was broke. Since steelmen recognized molybdenum's .value in making tough, rugged alloys, Climax has become the biggest thing in Leadville as well as in the "moly" business, has paid almost $26 million in dividends in the last five years. The company had $8,678,521 in the bank at the beginning of 1940. But Climax refused to pay what it considered an exorbitant...