Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...President asked Congress to move the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice as a measure of alien control. Said Attorney General Jackson, as the FBI added 100 agents and public opinion dumped the fifth-column problem in his lap: "Citizens may be helpful to the Government. They may aid by reporting to the FBI acts, threats, or evidences of sabotage, espionage." To a citizenry determined to act if the Government did not, he added, "The greatest help to the Government that citizens can render is to keep cool and not become frightened...
...crisis would rise toward a maximum between 1939 and 1940 and he thought that by that time there should be someone younger, quicker and better equipped to meet the urgencies of possible warfare without delay in the White House. But he spoke of that rather as his own personal problem than America's."-(H. G. Wells-after lunching with President Roosevelt two years ago-in Collier...
...final answer to Term III from the only man who knows the answer. But it was still on the cards that Mr. Roosevelt would be nominated at Chicago in July, unless he specifically and unequivocally declined. Many Washingtonians thought the matter settled: Brain-Trusters pondered only the problem of succession. Again the name of tough-minded Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was mentioned for the Vice-Presidency on a Roosevelt ticket. Justice Douglas, still the strategic chief of the "Killer" group of the Janizariat, is not so delectable to Mr. Roosevelt's heart as Attorney General Robert...
This is the problem of Charles Fleischauer '43, whose attempt to climb the north stairwell of Weld Hall on a hemp rope ended in defeat when he was brought down by the antiaircraft activities of the Yard police late yesterday...
...Scandinavia, the Balkans, parts of the Empire as well. With her exports reduced, thanks to labor shortage and lack of shipping, she must liquidate foreign securities to buy imports. She will lose her financial supremacy to the U. S. and thus her strongest bond with the Dominions. The problem of feeding the island population during the war will be slight compared with the difficulty once the war is over...