Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Demonstrations. A quick stroke was decided on. At 4:20 p.m. E. S. T., the Convention actually began. Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference to listen to the radio that evening, as Kentucky's Alben Barkley.would read the Convention a message from the White House. This was the first real news out of the Convention, and it came from Washington...
When France fell, demands were clamorous for quick U. S. action on Martinique. But last week, as the Martinique stalemate continued, there were solid U. S. reasons for wanting that stalemate to last as long as possible. On the eve of the Havana conference, Brazilians suddenly came out with a proposal that Brazil be given a mandate over British, French and Dutch Guiana. This looked like common sense to many Brazilians who had not considered that it would be an act of war against Britain, and it pleased some pro-fascist Brazilians who wanted just that. Next, Cuba...
...conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment of American typewriters will have small chance of quick unloading and delivery in Capetown, if competing German typewriters can be got to the customer first...
...Americans and Frenchmen alike the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité evoked the same ideals as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For a century and a quarter the U. S. and France watched those ideals spread across most of the world. For the last few terribly quick years, together they have watched them crumble...
...courts and swimming pools of the exclusive Porcupine Club. Below green-shuttered Government House are the warm waters of Nassau harbor, crowded with sleek yachts and fishing launches. Two hours flight away is the Florida coast and its U.S. winter resorts. The cartoonists of the U. S. press were quick to observe the pertinence of the appointment...