Word: confronted
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Henry Wallace, reluctant to adjust his policies to a changing world, spent the better part of eight years as Secretary of Agriculture, keeping the death of U. S. cotton export markets a political secret. Only after he became Term III's Vice-Presidential candidate did he publicly confront the dilemma. That was in a book: his campaign tract The American Choice-(Reynal & Hitchcock; $1), which told the U. S. that it would either have to subsidize more domestic consumption of cotton, or move several million surplus cotton farmers off their land...
...Ahead. It is quite obvious that the only way of stopping the expansion of the Hitler Europe is to confront it somewhere with a power possessed of superior armaments and an impregnable strategic position...
Anyone who has taken Ec A knows there is plenty of room and time to discuss the problems which confront non-academic economists today. If he is so unfortunate as to have had an instructor who confined his teaching to supply curves, that is a shame. Perhaps there is justification for an editorial fulminating against inadequate section men, whose existence is not confined...
...production, naval bases, airplanes, the proper size for an army, the extent to which we should participate in the war, and the direction of our diplomacy are not to be solved merely by urging youth to stop disbelieving in ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration...
Latest problem to confront Joseph P. Lyford '41, Chairman of the Lowell House Committee, is the choice of an appropriate name for the Bellboys' Spring Dance. The committee has already suggested a name for the affair, to which all dancers will be expected to come dressed as characters from the funnypapers. However, Lyford has rejected the name put forward on the grounds that it is "salacious and misleading." The suggested title was, "The Lowell House Comic Strip Dance...