Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Whoa, Mr. President," cried the Detroit News, sensing in Franklin Roosevelt's nonbelligerent intervention a pull toward war. Hundreds of letters approved (8-to-1) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's, bitter declaration that the President, unless checked, would take the U. S. over the brink...
...Pittsburgh, distressed at overhearing a worker gabbing about production results in a war-geared steel mill. Advertising Executive Robert Post began distributing posters reading: "Sealed lips stop tips. Don't talk to strangers about your work. Silence is golden. Help preserve American industry...
...will immediately start a survey, through its county societies, to determine the health, military fitness, medical specialties of its 117,000 members. A record will be kept of each man willing to serve, whether in the Army or at a civil post. Each State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...
American Export Lines, whose development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea trade was the most profitable post-war achievement of the U. S. merchant marine, must now content itself with calls at Lisbon. But no strategic material from the Mediterranean (except perhaps mercury) is irreplaceable. And U. S. processors of cottonseed oils knew what to do about an olive-oil shortage; U. S. rayon and silk men shed no tears at the blockade of Italy; California growers saw a widening market for domestic wine. One product would be partly missed: cork, of which Mediterranean countries (plus Portugal) produce...
Last month Archibald MacLeish, poet and Librarian of Congress, blamed himself and other post-World War I writers for the cynical pacifism of U. S. undergraduates (TIME, June 3). Such fine and honest writers as Hemingway and Dos Passos, said he, had done their job too well, had left the younger generation immunized not only against phony patriotism but against all moral judgments. LIFE asked a number of writers for comments, this week prints the answers. Samples...