Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Happiest man in the whole show was Jimmy Walker. After returning from abroad, halfheartedly practicing law while his wife ran a flower shop, conducting a short-lived radio program, he was back in the world of headlines, photographers, wisecracks, still the popular idol of many a New York City voter. Dressed in a natty, double-breasted grey suit, with a white shirt, black shoes and blue socks, a speck of white handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket, he was five minutes early on his first day at work...
Destroyers for Bases. "The country will undoubtedly approve of the program to add to our naval and air bases and assistance given to Great Britain...
...Labor World, Labor Writer William J. Way not only lauded Wendell Willkie's labor record, but went on to declare: "It is quite apparent Willkie is the best man to get cooperation from both labor and industry. The defense program will go over without delay if this vigorous man becomes President...
...were in service. Some have been converted into mine layers, some are being made into troop carriers and anti-aircraft batteries. Most were assigned to safe and stodgy neutrality patrol. The Navy last week had 78 modern destroyers, 57 more under construction and 74 planned. Even before the building program was stepped up the Navy expected to have 61 additional destroyers in service by 1943. That rate of increase will certainly be bettered, may be doubled...
...Bois thought he saw two world trends: 1) the waning of capitalism; 2) the waning concept of man as a rational being. From these he derived a new program for U. S. Negroes: 1) cooperative action among Negro consumers, building toward industrial democracy, i.e., socialism; 2) recognition of the deep, irrational roots of race prejudice, demanding "on our part not only the patience to wait, but the power to entrench ourselves for a long siege...