Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...passed the bill, the President signed it. Then sleepy Representatives awoke to what they had done, angrily tacked a repealer clause to a pending defense appropriation bill. Somehow, on the bill's way through the Senate, the repealer clause vanished. Result: the President still had his big club regardless of the fate of the Overton-Russell amendment...
...course, if they hadn't agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...
Celebrating his 82nd birthday, Dr. Henry Horace Williams, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, said: "Regardless of where our sympathies lie, Germany will probably win the war and organize a United States of Europe. Hitler is trying to do the same sort of thing George Washington did when he organized the 13 American colonies. Both men met plenty of opposition. But I wouldn't compare the character of Hitler and Washington, for Washington was a greater character...
...Defense boom, called "excess." From this is deducted a "specific exemption" (for the benefit of small business) of $5,000, leaving $45,000 subject to the tax. And if the company invests any new capital, it may deduct 8% of its new investment from the $45,000 (regardless of how much it makes or loses on its new investment...
...doing so, it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog in the world. In that event, the U. S. can no longer afford to have its external policies subject to the whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong, consistent foreign policy, a tradition whose failure has brought France to downfall and Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal...