Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...farce, comedy and lofty social sentiments. A beautiful Ohio WPA administrator takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
What's Wrong? Who was holding up the defense program - capital or labor? -was a question many a citizen could not answer to his own satisfaction...
They know it, and maybe they're not running the wrong way after...
...nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
...entire British wartime insurance setup (which already includes Government participation in insurance of all shipping) as it stands today, The Economist of London commented with satisfaction: "As with all other problems of wartime finance, it is wrong to think of compensation for damaged property as a liability that 'the State' . . . can assume or not as it chooses. In wartime the State is the community and the community is the State. . . . The only question is whether [the loss] shall be shared equitably or inequitably. The decision has now been taken to share it equitably...