Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Problem. For Wendell Willkie the day began early. The two months that had passed since he won the Republican nomination in Philadelphia had been preparation for his speech. The polls had indicated that he would win the election if it were held now-but the polls had shown Alf Landon leading immediately after his nomination, and after Landon's weak and unimaginative acceptance speech at Topeka, the polls had shown his steady decline. Wendell Willkie's ease and self-confidence had made it plain that his campaigning would be colorful, his personal appearances could carry...
...were from the independent Railroad Brotherhood. Their chairman: Sidney Hillman, a vice president of Lewis' C. I. O., president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's labor coordinator for the National Defense Advisory Commission. They were working on the problem of U. S. defense...
...charity could do to help Europe last week. The first boatload of British child evacuees to come directly from England under the sponsorship of the U. S. Committee for the Care of European Children was due in Manhattan. When the next boatload would arrive, the committee could not tell. Problem was to find ships to bring them. This week the Senate approved the Hennings Bill (already passed by the House) to amend the Neutrality Act, allow U. S. ships, plainly marked, to go into combat zones to evacuate children. The Bill was not likely to be vetoed by the President...
...circus." Milch was a former artillery officer who had become managing director of Deutsche Lufthansa, the big State-subsidized air combine. Short and chubby, bursting with energy and ability, Milch as a personality might have been taken for an able and energetic U. S. businessman. He tackled a terrific problem. Germany was a poverty-stricken nation. She was then forbidden a military air force. When the Nazis got in power (1933), Air Minister Göring made Milch Secretary of Air Traffic. Milch called War Ace Ernst Udet away from the cinema industry and together they built a shadow Luftwaffe...
After formalizing the oath with his signature, the Duke replied to the welcoming addresses of the Council's President and the Assembly's Speaker: "I do not doubt that, like all other British colonies, you here in the Bahamas are confronted with the same problem of reconciling your local interests with the changed conditions which hostilities have imposed. It will be my endeavor, however long or short the duration of my term of office, to lend you a helping hand in your efforts to solve...