Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Declared that conscription should be enacted within two weeks, and warned that delay dragging into fall or winter might set back the U. S. defense program by a year. His unprepared statement, delivered at a press conference, surprised correspondents, who had previously got from him only a general approval of the principle of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, now heard some Presidential scoffing at critics who had said that shortages of essential training equipment blocked immediate conscription. The President's main points: 400,000 new men are needed to bring existing units of the Regular Army and National Guard...
...Accepted the resignation of Edward Noble, Under Secretary of Commerce and organizer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, and said: "In the event you find yourself with . . . free time on hand after November I trust you will let me know. . . ."A candidate for Senator in Connecticut this fall, Republican Edward Noble also came out for Willkie...
...well qualified as any expert observer to explain how it had happened was elegant, wealthy, bald-headed Mr. Bullitt, who had seen Paris fall. No one doubted that his words had first been well weighed by Mr. Roosevelt. But never before had a U. S. Ambassador, a member of the Administration, been permitted to talk on international affairs with such undiplomatic, brutal bluntness. Mr. Bullitt minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall...
...everyone who gets a little drunk lands in gaol," said the editor, "but Liverpool prison serves a wide area in North-West England and North Wales . . . and so may be regarded as fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early...
...patronized mostly by tourists, businessmen with foreign connections, U. S. military and diplomatic attaches, claims that it can teach a student to speak a foreign language passably in about 100 lessons, in as few as ten weeks. Last week Berlitz reported that since war's outbreak last fall, business has boomed. Berlitz schools today have a record enrollment of 11,251, next fortnight will open new branches in three more cities...