Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Whether that fact meant that President Roosevelt viewed the fall of Britain as an imminent possibility, no one could say. There was no question that he was determined upon speedy action. Back in his study in Hyde Park, he called the State, War and Navy Departments to make it plain that he wanted the Permanent Canadian-United States Joint Defense Board set up and functioning this week...
...mountains, looking more than ever like an apple dumpling with a smile carved into its outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
...reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road east from Harar and Giggiga, struck at Hargeisa and Oadweina-shack towns used by herdsmen and caravans as watering and market places...
Nazi Jew-haters have long studied the globe, picking out other peoples' colonies as a home for Europe's Jews. Madagascar stands high on the list. Australia, its Anglo-Saxon population moved to Canada and its great central plain irrigated with Jewish millions, has been considered. Even Alaska has been mentioned as the new Jerusalem. Hinting at tough measures to come, the Himmler organ warned: "The European Jewish question is not to be solved through homeopathic remedies and not by . . . humane directions...
...with the Herald Tribune since 1918. As a cub he was the first (and only) newspaperman to interview J. P. Morgan after World War I. Reporter Racusin (known as "Rack") gets plenty of other assignments that call for a passionate curiosity about the lives of his fellow men, a plain-clothes man's eye for significant details. Six weeks ago the Herald Tribune's lanky City Editor Lessing Engelking called Rack and gave him a special assignment. By last week it had turned into a first-class detective story, with complications that...