Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to protest the election. "It is no good," he said. "Even if Konrad is removed I would not continue the job. The people have spoken." Charles M. La Follette, former Congressman from Indiana, now Military Governor of Würt-temburg-Baden, ordered an immediate investigation, expressed "grave concern...
...tails of the draft." Instead of UMT, the House is urging an Air Force of 70 groups, a figure somewhat in excess of Secretary Forrestal's estimate, as a more practical measure. But in defense of UMT General Omar Bradley warned Congress that air power was not the primary concern. "The alternative to UMT," he stated, "Is not 70 groups, 170 groups, or 1000 groups. The alternative . . . is a standing Army big enough to carry the Army portion of a war burden for one year, until mobilization can be effected." General Bradley put the figure...
...wringing his hands over Cornell either, but there is plenty of quiet concern over the threat that the Big Red poses. For one thing, Cornell was the only boat to show its stern to the Crimson last year, and most of the same powerful assembly will be back tomorrow to try again. For another, Frank Collyer is reputed to be the best stroke to be sport himself on the waters of Lake Cayuga for many a long year. What's more, he's the nephew of the greatest stroke Cornell ever had, whatever that may signify. For a third, this...
Christian Conscience. But a Christian at war must look sharply and often to his conscience. "The tendency of a conflict to change its character as it proceeds, and of a nation at war to deteriorate progressively in outlook and conduct, must always be of grave concern to Christians, on account of the ethical dilemmas that arise when what began as a 'just' war comes to assume a more dubious countenance . . . We would therefore emphasize the duty that is laid upon Christians of refusing to participate in any act of war which they are morally certain is wrong...
...social legislation he first opposed far-reaching New Deal programs in three fields: housing, health, education. Having studied the problems and rewritten the bills, he now supports the programs. His main concern was to see that control, wherever possible, resided in the states, not the federal government...