Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...problem which will face the United States in doubled degree when the war has ended. A demobilized army and the collapse of defense industries will make blacker and more dangerous the post-war unemployment picture. Work-camps may not be a solution; they are an attempt at an answer. To the practical experiments now being undertaken, Harvard owes it to Williams James to contribute...
...steering committee stated, "We must regard both President Conant's declaration and the projected war rally at Harvard as trial balloons testing the tractability of the American people to a new level in the war drive. Our answer to this is a united and militant demonstration that we will...
...Momentous Convention." Early last summer, while Hillman was bedded with grippe in Manhattan, his telephone rang. He took a thermometer out of his mouth to answer. "Sidney," said the voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "I've got a big job I'd like you to do." It was a job on the Defense Commission. Hillman's tempera ture rose from 101 to 103°. When he recovered he went to work in Washington...
...would like to keep Bulgaria Bulgarian, and a crown on his head, as long as possible. He told Adolf Hitler that he was interested, but that he could not officially join the Axis until Russia did-or at least until Russia openly approved Bulgaria's doing so. This answer was a shrewd one. Boris could see the weaknesses in the Russian-German mariage de convenance; he could also see its urgency from the German point of view. He played urgency against weakness. Meantime, the Bulgarian puppet Senate sent 6,000 kilos of cigarets to the German Army, probably...
...police since 1926, "the man with a million eyes and a million ears," director of OVRA (Italy's Gestapo); in Rome. Cop Bocchini called on Mussolini at noon daily to report on public opinion; on such a call in 1935 was said to have given the answer which decided the Duce to send his troops into Ethiopia...