Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Behind him, in all probability, was his last real seagoing vacation before he and the U. S. people find out about Term III. Ahead of him were months of arduous labor in the White House: the burden of operating a vast, peaceable democracy in a war-gripped world, the problem of holding together the sagging New Deal. Tanned, re-toughened, in bouncing spirits, his February melancholy and his barren fishing luck forgotten, he took train for Washington ready to fight the G. O. P. and the White House air-conditioning for at least eleven more months...
...Time? As was evidenced once more by last week's speeches and statistics, the economic front is Front No. 1. The economic resources of the Allies are immeasurably superior to Germany's. Problem is, how to organize them, turn their immense weight on the enemy...
Last week the British Government deliberately chose to muddy these waters. Before the House of Commons Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald announced that the British had decided to solve the land problem right now and in favor of the Arabs...
...student days, is one of the only Britons who can give Egyptian Amr Bey a run for his money in squash racquets, can still give a tennis game to Helen Wills. He has spoken many times on that question so important to the U. S., the Jewish refugee problem, and last week, while stanch Government supporters cheered and cried, "Hear! Hear!" and the Opposition yelled, "Oh!" and "Shame!", Mr. Cazalet asked this pointed question about Palestine...
Again the Crimson will be faced with the problem of breaking through the Yale zone defense, one of the best of its kind in the country. It is this potent factor which has given the Elis, otherwise an in and out ball team, victories over such teams as Fordham, Tulsa, Brown, and Princeton...