Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...argument is also dangerous. The whole unsolved problem of the depression will be blamed on Hitler. Every time a payroll is cut, it will be slapped on Adolf's back. We will be ballyhooed into an aggressive expeditionary war on economic grounds...
Such an argument graduates easily into accepting war as a way out of the unemployment problem. If we are "forced" to do something on economic grounds, then to do that thing is economically sound. Being "forced" to fight for an economic advantage will make it to our advantage to fight-and whenever anyone speaks now of economic advantages he has unemployment in his mind. Louis XIV repented his policy of war for profit . . . and we will repent it on ours if we ever follow that policy...
...Moines Register & Tribune, and handsome Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...
Professor Mather saw the real issue presented by Dr. Butler's statement as "the old problem of who it is that determines what "social learning" and moral teaching" are. If the faculty is to partake in the important matter of determining these things, differences of opinion may arise. He expressed the hope that President Butler's example would not be followed by the President of other universities "dedicated to the free pursuit of knowledge...