Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Tim Pile was told that his men must bear a heavier burden of defense. One night air-raid wardens circulated through their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing...
...past hundred years, in a generation births will be from 20 to 35% under re placement level. The elements of a popu lation program are contained in the Gov ernment's interest in public education, housing, recreation facilities, health & welfare organizations - all of which lessen the economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living for all but a few favored parents," Frederick Osborn believes the only sound population policy stresses "freedom of parenthood" - freedom not to have chil dren unless they...
...congested masses at home open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved a new philosophy of politics, and an ethical standard, serious and surely not ignoble...
English-made. Pastor Hall is introduced in a prologue by Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (burden: Pastor Hall is more important than Hitler), is the first picture presented to the U. S. by James Roosevelt. Globe Productions, in which Jimmy is associated with onetime Universal Executive Henry Henigson, has a franchise to distribute pictures through United Artists. Its next release will be Pot o' Gold (based on the radio program), being produced in Hollywood by a Rumanian-born quickie expert. Samuel Bronston...
...trooped in. were told what they had to do, wryly faced around and trooped out. But now the delegates-Democrats wha hae wi' Wallace bled-were hopping mad. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself all the way out of the New Deal with an opening remark of eight...