Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Between speeches in Manhattan and Boston, President Roosevelt last week spent a day in Washington facing this new international problem. He and the State Department had faced many such situations before. They had developed a routine treatment: a solemn condemnation of the aggression; the freezing of the invaded country's U. S. funds, lest they fall into the hands of the invader. But last week the familiar crisis routine was not re-enacted. The President, who had long professed to be so occupied with foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with...
...Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy Air Corps. If the problem of Martinique had to be settled, the U. S. was well prepared...
...would have to rely a great deal on the crack '43 team of last year. Well, he must be pretty well satisfied for they all have come up to expectations, especially Herskovits, Sawhill and Jack Calhoun. If Al Merck had returned to college there might have been no fullback problem. And according to Jimmy MacDonald, the Freshman coach, this year's crop of Yardlings are doing very well by themselves...
...until 6 o'clock Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, will tell "What the Nazi Revolution Means"; John K. Fairbanks '29, instructor in History, will lecture on "America Faces the Future in the Far East"; and William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, will discuss "The Problem of the Balkans...
...year training, and our goal of 50,000 planes a year make Canada look rabidly isolationist by comparison. Actually, Canada has changed from a British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because of her weakness, a cause of concern to her neighbor to the South, a nation whose war preparations and fervor eclipse her own, and yet a peaceful nation, dedicated to preventing further spread...