Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...radiance on the stage. Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra and Brigadier General Hershey walked in. Slowly behind them came President Roosevelt, on the arm of his secretary "Pa" Watson. The blue-suited President looked tired, grey, exhausted by his campaign. Said he to the nation (paraphrasing a favorite phrase of Wendell Willkie) and to the 17,000,000 registrants who were about to have their numbers drawn...
...repeated phrase "21 to 35" had led many a registrant to believe that he would be beyond his local board's supervision, as well as out of the draft, once he passed 36. The fact: all men who were between 21 and 35 on Registration Day, and not otherwise exempt, will be legally liable to call until September 1945. This rule holds true even if a man turned 36 on Oct. 17. Practically, of course, as registrants near 40, their chances of being wanted for the Army will steadily lessen. But youngsters who turn 21 between...
...campaign of 1940 Franklin Roosevelt, Harvard-bred, did not rant as Huey Long once did about the "lyin' newspapers." He sometimes used a phrase which to him meant virtually the same thing: "the Tory press." Bitter New Dealers like Harold Ickes had often harangued at "kept newspapers and kept commentators." Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn talked about "dictatorship [of the press] ... by the financial interests" (TIME...
...have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver's phrase. And we've got to consider the truck drivers in the present hour, rather than the intellectuals...
...second important phrase, "conscientiously opposed to war in any form," is more significant for what it leaves unsaid than for what it does say. Anyone who does not make any statement under this section, Section X on his questionnaire, is tacitly giving his conscientious approval to participation in "any form" of war, not only in defensive war. Form 47, to be sent in along with the questionnaire, will be the last chance for those who sincerely oppose war, or who believe only in defensive war, to make their full position known. A large enough body of determined opinion against...