Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Everybody would like a pay-as-you-go policy. The virtually insuperable problem: where to get the money. Only two major untapped revenue sources were open. One was the direct means of lowering exemptions and raising rates on lower-income groups, as per Mr. Taft's proposal. Another was the indirect means of ceasing to issue tax-exempt securities. Net total of tax-exempt securities (Federal, State, local) is now some...
Herewith TIME presents condensed versions of two extraordinary speeches made last week. Together they did much to clarify the overwhelming problem facing the U. S. One was a speech by Adolf Hitler to the workers and women of Germany, delivered beneath shiny new cannon in the Rhein-metall-Borsig munitions works. The other was dictated by the British Ambassador to the U. S., the Marquess of Lothian, from his deathbed, and was read by Embassy Counselor Nevile Butler to the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore...
...British had any feeling of complacency last week it was not because of Frank Owen, a tall, rangy, bushy-haired newspaperman, who was born on the border of Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen...
...pointed out the distinction between "undernourishment, or deficiency in calorie intake, and malnutrition, or deficiency in proteins, vitamins, and minerals," remarking that the more vital problem is to maintain the quality of the national diet, especially in regard to vitamin content, in order to "promote vigor, resistance to disease, and a high morale...
...world is beset with problems which badly need thinking through. First problem, say professional thinkers-i.e., philosophers-is how to go about thinking at all. Two new books attack the impasse. Bertrand Russell pursues An Inquiry into...