Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...regard to adopting the conscription plan of Yale's President Seymour Dr. Conant said he didn't think world conditions were definite enough to demand a permanent compulsory service. He feels that if such measures become necessary, Dr. Seymour's suggestion is one of the best to adopt...
Total national forces assembled in massive fashion and directed against individual nations are difficult to withstand. We do not propose to adopt totalitarian principles or methods based upon them, but in order to defend ourselves successfully we must contrive our policies of counterattack. Our new democratic policies will call for administrative management of very high quality-superior personnel, superior fiscal management, superior planning, superior methods and practices-blending together the highest available skills of industrial management, military management, public administration; and summoning ability to meet emerging situations for many of which there will be found no precedents...
Defining his position as one of "finding democratic control to keep tyrannical control away," Hicks pointed out that if Fascism wins in Europe, "we can not help but be forced to adopt some imitative form of Fascism ourselves." This, he said, would occur, because a German victory in Europe would give the totalitarian forces in this country not only ideological impetus, but also material support from the "profit-moved business...
Professor Leach outlined a four-point program which we should adopt as a result. 1. Send naval units to Singapore to prevent Japanese encroachment there; 2. Notify Japan that we will resist an attack on Singapore; 3. Declare an embargo on all Japanese imports and exports; and 4. Help China in every way possible...
...walks. Actors were told to "exercise self-admonition in acting, refraining from expressions suggestive of loose ideas." Excursion traveling by boat or train was prohibited. Brothels' hours were limited to between 5 a.m. and midnight ; the prostitutes of Tokyo's red-lit Yanagihashi district voted to adopt uniforms like those worn by waitresses in keeping with the national restraint; parents were prevented by law from selling their daughters to houses of prostitution "unless they have a justifiable reason for doing so." Girl cyclists were directed to wear "peg-topped, coverall type of trousers as the tendency of kimonos...