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...might add, busily engaged in trying to build up the reserve military forces of the U. S. in my own little sphere so that should the time come, God forbid, that reserve military forces are needed, they will be ready to move in with the regulars and function. I remember all too well the late Mr. Bryan's two million men who were to spring to arms overnight...
Lorries carried the assault tanks to their scene of action, unloading and readying them for action in five minutes. Their function, following the breakthrough, was to fan out and attack troops in trenches, nests, pillboxes. Some were said to spew flames 70 yards into blockhouse ventilators and machine-gun nests...
...opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...
...function of these committees will be to study matters within their respective fields, and to report the results of their study to the Faculty "in the form most helpful for facilitating Faculty consideration and action...
...through Plan B-are weakening the tutorial system," the report concludes. On a more concrete plane, the Union finds that tutorial today is often carried on by inexperienced men working under haphazardly diverse conditions. And little attempt is made to coordinate the work of individual tutors, who tend to function, as one tutor put it, in a vacuum...