Word: squanders
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...citizens of 1940 are the trustees of the future of these United States. We shall be rightly condemned by posterity if we needlessly become involved in war and squander life and treasure. But we shall be yet more guilty in the eyes of our descendants if we fall to preserve our heritage of freedom--if we fall because of timidity or lack of far-sighted resolution. The decision is momentous. Those who feel as I do believe the future of human liberty is at stake...
Greatest weakness of the subsidy program was the fact that 82% of all silver bought by the U. S. had come from overseas. In order to get their subsidy, the silver producers were willing that the U. S. squander indiscriminately abroad. Ranger Townsend rode through this weak point in the stockade, unloosed both barrels with a bill to end foreign silver purchases...