Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...suggestion I am about to make," wrote Mr. Boyd, "may at first glance seem inexpedient, but I believe it has real merit and I urge you to give it very serious consideration. The suggestion is that the Democratic National Ticket in 1940 should be: For President-Cordell Hull; for Vice President-Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Meanwhile, also, U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new kind of airplane armor plate (for pilot seats, bombardier and gunner protection, etc.). Its materials: steel and rubber. Its merit, according...
...president of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1937, Thomas John Watson, International Business Machines president, accepted the Merit Cross of the German Eagle. "Because the present policies of your Government are contrary to the causes for which I have been working," Tycoon Watson last week sent the medal back to Hitler...
...huge army is unnecessary for hemisphere defense at present and would only serve to raise the military mentality to the ascendency. A natural concomitant of conscription would be the breeding of a fatalistic attitude. War would take on, for the American people, an inevitability which it does not merit. The American way of life would immediately be conditioned by fearful waiting, by tremendous annual defense budgets, by a lower living-standard. This may be necessary in the near future, but it cannot be dovetailed with the facts to date. There is the final and vital objection that conscription, once established...
...prose of Mr. Kissner and most of the authors of the 40 articles in this book rarely flows as smoothly as one of his boats. But literary merit is of only incidental importance; the volume contains a wide variety of advice from how to turn a somersault underwater, Eskimo-fashion, to how to navigate the Forty-Mile rapid of the Mississagi. The great thing about a foldboat, Mr. Kissner assures us, is that in 15 minutes it can be taken apart, packed in two knapsacks, and stowed in no more impressive a boatyard than the hall closet. It is notable...