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...weakness of the German Air Force when it was being built. British Cabinet members openly, jocosely showed their lack of interest in the air force. Public opinion was hostile to rearmament of any kind. Sir Samuel Hoare, though he made some constructive suggestions, never got out on a limb that might lose the Government votes. Churchill was an ardent supporter of the R.A.F. but not always well informed on German air rearmament. When presented with an awkward question, Ramsay MacDonald, as Prime Minister, explained that he could do nothing about air, and sent Londonderry to Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was interested...
...although Jaake, Mikkola may get up a track team, and general statements are very unreliable things to make at this stage of the game. For example, it's safe to say that just about everyone wants to see some sort of a football team in the fall, but the limb gets pretty shaky after that...
...Your analysis of the coal dispute between the President and Lewis is so distorted, so bitter toward the President, so relatively charitable toward Lewis, that anyone not acquainted with TIME's habitual method of sensational and "out on a limb" journalistic style would actually believe you favored Lewis over the President...
Denying the reputed devotion to the "Normal Distribution Curve," the release states scholarship policy as clearly as possible without placing its authors on the proverbial limb. It will serve as an answer to the universal question, "How low can I go academically and still be promoted to second semester work and probationary commissioned status in the Supply School?" In spite of the assurances which were given when the question was posed to faculty members, the answer had remained moot until today...
...those economy-minded legislators are left hanging on the end of a long and lonesome limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself...