Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lower income classes and reliefers, whence comes his strength, Mr. Roosevelt said warmly: "Some well-meaning people have even suggested recently seriously that the right to vote be denied to American men and women who through no fault of their own had lost their jobs and in order to keep the family and the home going were working on works relief projects...
...from frequent election and rotation in office, had agreed with George Mason of Virginia that "the very palladium of civil liberty" lay in "that the great officers of State and particularly the Executive, should at fixed periods return to that mass from which they were at first taken, in order that they may feel and respect those rights and interests which are again to be personally valuable to them." Concurred Benjamin Franklin: "In free governments, the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors. For the former, therefore, to return among the latter was not to degrade...
...more from Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
Although only 7.1% of the executives thought that "inadequate interest on the part of industrialists" was the chief impediment to the defense program, 58.8% had friends who were chary about going heavily into war industry production. Their main misgivings, in order: i) difficulty of cooperating with an anti-business Administration; 2) delay in letting businessmen charge off the cost of new rearmament plants within five years; 3) fear that armament contracts will interfere with labor policies; 4) belief that armament profits will be too small to justify the risks involved; 5) a feeling that the emergency is not so acute...
...halfpenny (about 3?) tube fares for a grimy plot of platform on which to sleep. Working-class people, with dirty blankets, tattered pillows, paper bags containing desperate entertainments-such as knitting and cards-and nourishment-such as beer and bananas-crowded the ill-ventilated way stations. The Home Secretariat ordered the police to clear the subways, but the police dared not carry out the order. The smelly air was not improved by portable lavatories grudgingly provided by the Transport Ministry. Over the huddled clerks, waitresses, street sweepers, hairdressers, tarts, hung a danger almost as bad as the bombs from which...