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...Franklin Roosevelt last week came many a quiet reminder of the human tragedies, joys and kindnesses that go on in peacetime and in war. On one sober, solemn day he presented Congressional Medals of Honor to the families of two of his old friends who had died heroes' deaths in the Solomons (see p. 86). And twice more in the week the busy routine of White House news was stopped for the business of humanity...
...Department of Agriculture on a wartime basis and picked two energetic lieutenants to help him. The job: to end doodling over a food situation that is rapidly getting out of hand. The men: big, shaggy, 38-year-old Roy Frederick Hendrickson, who became Director of Food Distribution; tall, sober, 47-year-old Herbert William ("Parse") Parisius, the new Director of Food Production...
...omens are good. The final plans cannot satisfy all educators, but what previews have leaked in official statements show sober thought and sound planning. Washington is apparently ready to delay the execution while it perfects the blueprints. We may guess that the same sobriety will be shown in details of the planning. Meanwhile there is no cause for panic. The reserves may be called, but they will go in order; not on a week's notice in mid-term. The army may move in, but not tomorrow or by the first of the year. If the plans have taken long...
...Hamilton said that England is in a state of extreme vitality, not only is there much thinking about the internal situation, of which the Beveridge Plan is a product, but also about international affairs. "At no time has there been so much coldly sober discussion about international cooperation...
There was little prospect that the Beveridge scheme would be adopted by the present predominantly Conservative Parliament elected in 1935. Sober, competent New York Timesman Raymond Daniell cabled: "This, it has been predicted, will be the longest step this country has ever been asked to take toward economic reform, and the best political opinion is that it is doomed before [it has] ever seen the light of day, so far as this Parliament is concerned...