Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Sirs: Of all the silly issues interjected into this campaign on both sides, the silliest is the question of Elliott Roosevelt's acceptance of a captaincy in the Maintenance Corps of the Air Service. Let's consider the facts: 1) Elliott Roosevelt is 30 years old. 2) He has a family-as a matter of fact, he has two families. 3) He has abandoned an interesting and profitable job for one that pays him $200 a month, and even in times of peace army life is no bed of roses. There was about as much chance...
...invasion of their own soil by now is axiomatic. That America wants to help them by lending or giving money to them to save their own lives is also axiomatic today. That the Soviet Union would, because of this, declare war on the United States is about the silliest thought that I ever heard advanced in the fifty-eight years of my life...