Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fully attested to by every administration spokesman and army staff officer from Roosevelt and Marshall on down. If passed, it will produce chaos in the organization and replacement training of military units. Whole regiments and divisions may be held up. We need not fear that our military leaders will allow boys to go into action before they are fully prepared. But we have reason to fear that if the O'Daniel amendment is passed, our leaders will be prevented from taking action when action becomes vitally necessary...
...middle of an apprenticeship for war industry. Their position is clarified. Similarly, an unamended bill, by placing under the Army and Selective Service control of the entire group of military eligibles, could have made effective offensive planning possible. We are too far committed to action to allow an election minded Congress to tell our generals when and where they may use their men. The people were ready for draft extension before Congress recognized its political feasibility; they are still ready, and they want no strings attached...
...more so than the induction of married men with or without dependents. This is the time for the Army to decide who shall go and when. It is time for a quibbling Congress to stop hamstringing military procurement, to let down the remaining bars and to allow military effectiveness to control the decisions...
...This is the simplest way," he said. "Industry must accept the principle that it cannot earn excess profits during war-time. The only alternative is for the government to let it take all the profits it can and this Congress and popular pressure will not allow...
...Mother Hugo dominated Victor so strongly that when he fell in love with Adèle Foucher, his mother refused to allow them to be engaged. Through years of unofficial engagement, Victor poured out his inhibited heart to her in verse. Adele complained that she did not understand poetry. "Your soul understands poetry," said Hugo. Soon after his mother died, Victor married Adèle. In seven years she bore him five children...