Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When was the President going to give the U. S. defense program an executive head with full executive powers? Franklin Roosevelt's regular Friday morning press conference came & went without definitive answer from the President. Big Bill Knudsen of the National Defense Advisory Commission had set the country ringing with his blast against the weekend "blackout" in U. S. industry, his plea to machine toolmen-management and labor-to speed up because of "terrible urgency...
...last week that more people would pay more taxes in 1941 than ever before. The nation, with a sky-reaching public debt now past $44,000,000,000, was faced with a probable $50,000,000,000 defense bill in the next five years, over & above regular annual Government appropriations of some...
More or less under arms, when the Army last totted up (Nov. 21), were 106,833 mobilized National Guardsmen, 387,811 three-year Regulars, only 18,000 of an expected 90,000 one-year draftees and volunteers. Call of 96.000 additional Guardsmen must be delayed (anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training...
...official announcement that the collection would be taken by the Government. He added, "If you can give with your conscience, do so." Then he announced the sale of pamphlets nominally priced 2 ? each. "You have read them already," he said, "but you can give them to your friends." The regular collection, sacked by the Nazis, netted less than $2. The sale of 20 2? pamphlets netted...
Activities include a series of lectures, dances featuring a plentiful supply of cuba libres, beer parties, and regular meetings with discussions in Spanish and English. The club is collecting South American newspapers and magazines which Widener does not have...