Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Public opinion today substantially approves the second, third and fourth points of my 1938 defense program, and Congress this year is voting far more than $3,000,000,000 in necessary appropriations. Unfortunately large appropriations do not immediately buy security. This country will be in deadly peril until our defenses, some two years hence, will include an adequate air force and a highly trained field force armed with modern weapons. Incidentally, the provisions of the original Burke-Wadsworth Bill are approximately those suggested in my fifth point, and it is to be hoped that Congress will enact this measure...
Zestfully he jabbed at Franklin Roosevelt-for holding that he was too busy to meet Candidate Willkie in joint debate ("He is President of the United States, but it is equally true that he is running for a Third Term. . . ."); for nonetheless finding time to arrange three speeches in the South next Labor Day; for being secretive about the new U. S.-Canadian defense pact's terms...
Black & Blue. From New England had come Major General James Albert Woodruff's Black Army. Spearheaded was the regular Army's famed First Division, screened by the Army's historic Third Cavalry. Outnumbered almost 2-to-1 by the defending Blue Army of National Guardsmen, it was ready to attack from the banks of the Grass River (flowing north into the St. Lawrence) when the maneuver began...
...world is Adolf Hitler. Like many of his tribe, Critic Hitler was himself once an unsuccessful painter. Like all critics, he takes his art very seriously, considers himself pretty knowledgeable. Not only does he know what he likes; he is able to banish from sight in the Third Reich everything he doesn't like. There is a lot of art he doesn't like: 1) the highly individualistic sort (spattery impressionism, cubist geometry, African-influenced neo-primitives, Freudian surrealist nightmares) that made Paris the artistic capital of the pre-war world; 2) art that does not glamorize...
...went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts but stayed on. In the June Purge he was liquidated. Otto Strasser escaped from the Third Reich, continued his plotting abroad, was last reported captured in France by the Nazis, who denied they...