Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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TIME does not believe its account was distorted. And to be plain as well as truthful, TIME does not favor U. S. entrance into the war. The only ax it has to grind is that U. S. citizens shall have the facts, welcome or unwelcome, to form intelligent opinions on what the U. S. must do to look after its own interests. Also to be plain, there are some circumstances in which the defense of the primary interests of the U.S. may require going to war. TIME believes it as dangerous to refuse to consider that fact as to engage...
Cartel. The character of the U. S. delegation made it plain that the U.S. viewed the biggest Nazi threat in South America as economic. No U.S. military or naval experts were going. With Secretary Hull went Adolf Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, creator of the cartel plan by which the U. S. would block Nazi pressures on South America...
...harbor, below the frowning heights of Algeria's Jebel Murjajo, Britain got her full answer. It came with fearful finality. The question that Britain had faced was: What if France should lose? From some of France's politicians-well-intentioned poltroons, strong-minded pro-Nazis and plain defeatists-already had come the civilian's answer: ignominious surrender...
This imitative hysteria was something of a comic-strip episode because of the innocent brush which occasioned it. Contrary to a long-standing agreement, 16 armed plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes had sauntered into the U. S. defense sector of Shanghai's International Settlement. U. S. Marines arrested them, disarmed them, interned them. One was permitted to telephone his headquarters. Their commander called on Marine Commander Colonel DeWitt Peck and apologized for their mistake. The men were released. The incident was apparently closed...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what many a plain citizen has long suspected: that most popular songs sound pretty much alike. Jack Darrell, author, decade ago, of a not very successful ditty called Does Anybody Want a Kewpie?, had brought suit for plagiarism against Al Sherman and Abner Silver, whose It Happened on the Beach at Bali Bali was a hit five years ago. Darrell showed that the same eight-note theme recurs in each song. But the Circuit Court dismissed his complaint. Said its three learned judges: although there are plenty of combinations...