Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...revenue committees, Treasury and Budget Bureau heads: Mississippi's Pat Harrison, Georgia's Walter George, of Senate Finance; North Carolina's Robert Doughton, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, of House Ways & Means; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan; Budget Director Harold Smith. Their problem was to raise a hoped-for $10,000,000,000 of Federal revenue for fiscal 1942, as against fiscal 1941's expected $7,000,000,000. On coming out, stogie in mouth, Pat Harrison paused to tell reporters that personal and corporate income taxes would not again be raised...
Last week, beginning his new job as C. I. O.'s president, Murray took hold of his problem...
What Next? The Congress was not quite in the dilemma of the Prohibition Party after the adoption of the 18th Amendment: What to fight for? But it faced a comparable problem of having achieved its obvious ends and of trying to find out the best uses of its power. In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton called a convention of woman's-rights seekers that adopted a Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence: "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment...
...capacity for readjustment to the realities of the modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This is a revolutionary period-almost a preview of Armageddon...
...reason of the Axis blackout of free institutions, the administration of national defense is an urgent problem, opening out new and difficult situations of many kinds arising from new forms of "total war." Unless an early and decisive defeat is inflicted upon the Axis Powers, we must contemplate farflung warfare, declared or undeclared, military, economic, diplomatic, of a new and total type, hitherto unfamiliar to mankind. This contest will involve a sweeping reorientation and reorganization of administrative practice in many directions by keen and energetic minds, many of whom will be administrators...