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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt was assured tonight by his financial advisers that the nation's economic structure could withstand any shock arising from outbreak of a European...
...control and modify abnormal behavior, extensive knowledge concerning the bases for temperamental differences is required. Why does one child have a temper tantrum when in the same situation another child remains composed? . . . Why does Miss Jones embarrass her instructor with an hysterical outbreak [on] receiving a poor grade, whereas Miss Smith accepts failure all too philosophically...
Jennie's pathetic, irritating, irrational and commonplace little rebellion is not merely an outbreak of Southern emotionalism. It is, rather, the last stand of her independence. All society, exemplified by aunts, veterans, parents and brothers, seems to be forcing her into a complicated ritual which has nothing to do with her relations with the doctor. As a result all the trappings-the flags, costumes, bridesmaids-seem as quaint and unreal as an anthropologist's description of some South Sea Islanders' marriage rite. Jennie surrenders, but only after she has discovered, by making eyes at the best...
...John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal and Minister in charge of civilian defense, announced that plans for decentralizing the Government immediately on the outbreak of a war have been made. England, Scotland and Wales will be divided into twelve districts, the civil and military affairs of each to be administered by an autonomous "dictator" during wartime...
...outbreak of the World War, Britain found that thousands of her skilled workers had flocked to the army, leaving raw youngsters to work the vital industries at home. Before the next war, Britain is determined to separate the cannon fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives...