Word: mutual
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meanwhile in Birmingham bomb bores formed a mutual-aid society, "The Birmingham District Bombees Association," to listen to one another's bomb stories...
They did not agree on how much danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column...
...Verdun attackers as well as defenders died in thousands. Such mutual slaughter captured men's imaginations and the head lines. Last week's battle was far more ominous from a military standpoint...
...Hocking's opinion, "a non-intimidable, non-bribable, non-hating United States" may be the sole hope of preventing the mutual near-destruction of the European belligerents, each of which will continue to fight, he added, "so long as it fears that the other, whatever its professions, is secretly bent on reducing it to economic dependency...
...prig, Brigham Young founded the Salt Lake Theatre (where Maude Adams first appeared on stage, age 9 months) as one of his first creations; organized the still flourishing Young Men's & Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, whose sessions ended in dances, which were (and are) always opened with prayer. Pioneer Young wanted young Mormons to have their fun in church, not taverns...