Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt's wife, and James Monroe, whom Jefferson sent to France with instruction to do what he could to discourage Napoleon's ambitions in the New World, returned with news of an amazing bargain they had made. It ended for all time the danger of a foreign neighbor settling on the west bank of the Mississippi. They had in their pockets a contract for the Louisiana Purchase...
...collects from each committee a full report of work done that day. Next morning Lord Beaverbrook reads these reports, then takes action. Example: one report told of a small Midlands manufacturer who was down in his output because of a shortage of certain classes of material and labor. A neighbor ing manufacturer had a surplus of both the material and the men, but Manufacturer No. 1 was not on speaking terms with Manufacturer No. 2. So Lord Beaver brook telephoned first one and then the other, coaxed them into cooperating. Next thing he heard, they were buddies...
...nearly eight years President Roosevelt has battled for democracy and freedom. . . . Roosevelt believed in government by the people and for the people. . . . Roosevelt believed in putting the common man first . . . Roosevelt believed in the good-neighbor policy, among individuals and among nations. . . . Roosevelt believed in peace through preparedness. . . . Roosevelt believed in freer world trade and a higher standard of living. . . . Roosevelt was its [democracy's] eager servant and faithful defender. . . . Only Roosevelt had the unusual combination of many months spent as a boy in European countries, a comprehensive knowledge of history, experience as Assistant Secretary of the Navy . . . access...
Because the original Monmouth Park has long since been carved into house lots, Horseman Haskell & associates plan to buy tumble-down Elkwood Park, Monmouth's neighbor and chief competitor in the old days, since used at one time or another for auto racing, Ku Klux Klan rallies and county fairs. To its mile track they expect to add $1,200,000 worth of landscaping, grandstands and stables, make the new Monmouth worthy of its name when it opens next June...
While a good many summer school students were complaining about the lack of air-conditioning in Widener Library, thirteen Harvard students were having their lectures in the bar rooms of the MooreMcCormack Lines' "Good Neighbor Fleat...