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Once I ventured meekly to suggest that the best way to prevent crime was not to abolish the police force but to maintain an adequate and well-trained one. Gazing at me pityingly, Mr. Hoover turned to the rest of the class and remarked with clinical detachment: "In Miss Willson, young women, you have a perfect example of economic predetermination...
...nation in the world, regardless of how strong it may be, can stand such a financial policy indefinitely and maintain a democratic form of government. With our tax bill now above that of Great Britain it clearly is time to come to our senses...
...return they have asked for Lend-Lease assistance and sufficient processed raw materials and manufactured goods to maintain an internal economy hard hit by war-closed foreign markets. The U.S. has supplied some of the items in small volume, others in dribbles, others...
Comment: "Peace can never be assured merely by seeking to reserve armament exclusively for those nations which are so satisfied that they seek only to maintain the status quo. This was the great illusion of Versailles." Since "the world is a living, and thus a changing, organism," the eight points should have proposed "the development of some international mechanism for effecting peaceful change...
First warning of the approach of the raiders was received at 12:30 o'clock, and emergency crews were called to be in readiness and to maintain contact with the Chief Warden's control post in the Yard...