Word: non
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene in the House was an odd mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand...
...slick big-time firm Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy. And he was still more so when he volunteered his services to the New Deal "for the duration" (his words to Felix Frankfurter) in early 1933. By that fall, as counsel to AAA, he had led the revolt of consumer-minded, non-agrarian New Dealers that ousted George Peek. Less than two years later he was himself ousted in a similar revolt against the more durable Chester Davis. Rex Tugwell, his friend and sponsor, quickly got him placed in RFC. Thence he moved to PWA, for which he won the Alabama Power case...
Standpat Southerners deny such stories with heat and hatred; non-Southerners know too little to have any right to an opinion. Author Caldwell's taste for close crowding of extremes of cruelty, pity, irony, inconsistency and comedy, his occasional tendency to stack his cards, still further obscure these important facts: that the South is a country of incredible extremes; that for all his faults Caldwell is one of the best and fairest recorders of them...
...nationwide radio address Mr. Roosevelt stressed the non-political character of his farm policies. But woven through his remarks was the theme that agricultural interests have achieved more in the last seven years than they would have under a Republican administration...
...appeal to the youth of America is to stand steadfast on our traditional foreign policy laid down by George Washington in 1793--neutrality, non-intervention, no entangling alliances, and no entangling peace." Representative Fish continued...