Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week, looking despairingly for refuge. U. S. citizens mobilized money, food, clothing, medical supplies, men and women to help them. As the U. S. dug its hands into its pockets, it wondered how long private and voluntary charity would be able to cope with so gigantic and continuing a problem...
...consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed ahead without him on plans to train 1,000.000 civilians, find immediately needed craftsmen, school 45,000 civilian pilots for a year...
...matter how faint their voices in the thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...
...siders its obligation sacred and does not avoid the supreme trials which determine the course of history." Now that France was struggling for her life-breath, and Great Britain was girding against invasion, Benito Mussolini cried: "We are taking up arms to resolve, after reaching a solution of the problem of our continental frontiers, the problem of our frontiers...
...this whole problem of "America's Relation to the War" I spoke in October to a group of Harvard undergraduates who were members of the American Independence League. I deplored the waves of hysteria which were already sweeping the country and urged that the problem of possible American participation be viewed in the light of American interests, broadly conceived. I urged that American interests were then as always "tied up with guesses on the future' and that it would be unwise to adopt dogmatic attitudes. "What we need in the coming weeks and months is not a doctrinaire position, stubbornly...