Word: signed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fact was that the U. S., in trying to aid Britain, was still producing more bottle necks per week than anything else. But Mr. Roosevelt announced that he would take off that aid "the silly, foolish dollar sign." He had prepared the public for whatever concrete legislation may be proposed. He was still working day & night with the only immediately effective U. S. weapons: dollars and diplomacy. The nation would soon become a gigantic arsenal. Preparedness was to be all-out preparedness. The Budget soon to go to Congress might be an Anglo-American budget. Whether or not it would...
...people regularly spend the night, had become so standardized that many shelter Christmas parties were elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...
...sharp stakes of Surabaya were just one sign last week of the alertness of The Netherlands East Indies. The islands had new cause to be wary. Another Japanese negotiator was on his way to Batavia ostensibly to talk oil-but the Dutch knew that selling oil to Japan might be a very minor part of the conversations. They recalled what happened to French Indo-China...
When Franklin Roosevelt last week told reporters that he would speed aid to Britain by eliminating the silly-fool dollar sign from the transaction, he stamped 1940 as a year in which a U. S. Revolution came out in the open. In that symbolic phrase, and in the year of gathering fears and tensions that had led up to it, the whole eight-year course of the New Deal seemed suddenly to be photographed in lightning. Politicians had steadily taken power from businessmen. And now in A.D. 1940, with the world in the grip of war economy, even dollars...
...There is one thing I want to ask of you all; that we give no place to weariness, to capitulation! There are those who would persuade us that the suffering of our Church is a sign that it follows a perverted way. To that we reply confidently that the Apostles have borne witness to the contrary. ... In their strength let us go forward on the way-in His footsteps-unconcerned with the censure of men, but with the peace of Christ in our hearts and with praise of God on our lips. So help...