Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What Franklin Roosevelt had to tell them was something that could not keep: it was his answer to the question. On the soundness of his answer might well depend the fate of the democratic world...
...Flandin was acceptable to Adolf Hitler remained for the latter's Agent-Ambassador Otto Abetz to say. Accompanied by a formidable Nazi delegation, Abetz hurried to Vichy while spokesmen in Berlin recalled that Germany and France were "still at war," and grimly intimated that upon his report would depend whether "the present state of affairs shall continue...
Labor in defense industries will largely depend on Philip Murray. Mild-mannered, tough as a rizzar and as sure of himself as any Scot, Murray declared at C. I. O.'s recent, raucous convention: "C. I. O. assumes complete jurisdiction over every major defense industry...
...many ways, the fate of the world hangs on American actions just now. If the U. S. becomes involved in conflict either in Europe or the Pacific, civilization will go up in flames." Relations between Japan and the U. S., he explained, "apparently depend largely on Japan's continental and South Seas policies," but "if the United States refuses to sell us oil and other supplies, we must get them elsewhere...
Public administration at this critical moment is of greater importance than over before. With startling and incredible rapidity, volcanic changes have swept over the world, smashing at the ways of life and thrusting at us urgent problems of the most fundamental type. Many of these problems depend for their solution upon skill in administrative management...