Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Willkie speeches fitted into a pattern in which specific legislative and economic proposals alternated with general discussions of Wendell Willkie's basic political views. In Los Angeles he talked of taxation, in San Francisco, of foreign policy, in Portland, of power, in Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm problem, in Cleveland, defense, in Pittsburgh, again labor. But between these talks that bore on what he planned to do if elected were reaffirmations of principles-harking back to the pattern of democratic education (Coffeyville), to the position of women in democratic and totalitarian societies (Detroit)-as if he were attempting...
...purchase tax rising to a maximum of 33⅓% on such items as winter clothing and household goods. Added to these irritants in civilian life was the arrival of Britain's miserable winter weather, the still present threat of invasion, the anxiety of continuing air raids, the problem of keeping a mobilized but inactive army of more than two million men out of mischief, the possibility of another blow to civilian morale if, for instance, symbolic Gibraltar falls...
...solution to this age-old problem is a set of prepared maps containing all the requirements for the present year. These are in no way connected with tutoring notes and are sold just as books or any other items connected with a college course...
Referring specifically to foreign affairs the State Department official declared that "The President has lived with the problem for seven years and has the knowledge and ability to cope with it, which Willkie completely lackg. The only issue is the comparative competency of the two candidates...
...clock in Harvard Hall, Room 1, is "The Race Against Time". On October 16 the subject will be "The Social Context of Radio", and lectures on subsequent Wednesday evenings will deal with systems of control of radio, relation of the radio industry to government, psychology of radio, propaganda, the problem of controversy, and radio in education...