Word: howe
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...like the U. S. National Defense Advisory Commission, without explicit powers, a ruling head, do a real defense job? Canada tried the committee system at the war's outset, abandoned it for a coordinated, thoroughly empowered Department of Munitions and Supply under quiet, hard-working Minister Clarence D. Howe. Mr. Howe has spent much time in Washington, has much respect for the U. S. commissioners and what they have managed to do up to now. But Canada's dollar-a-year-men (Ottawa's swank Chateau Laurier swarms with them) unanimously declare that...
...England: Indian Summer is thronged with other New Englanders. There was the aging Whittier at his Amesbury cottage with the harebells in the garden room. "Sometimes, recalling his hairbreadth escapes in the anti-slavery days . . . the old man would leap from his seat. . . ." There was Julia Ward Howe. In the electric days of 1861, she had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic in one half-hour of genius that never returned again. Now she "rumble-tumbled" through the Newport season, communing with Kant and Spinoza, organizing her "picnics with a purpose"-"an hour or two of botany...
...materiel, too, the Canada which had faced war last year with six destroyers, less than 300 military airplanes and an active militia of just over 4,000 men, had come a good piece. Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D. Howe told the House of Commons: "Canada's industrial tempo is at its highest peak in history." Airplane production, he said, was already at the rate of 1,300 a year and would reach 4,320 next year. Eleven types were already in production, and more on the drafting board. When plant equipment is completed, the country will produce...
These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
Shocked were Transradio and its radio clients one day last month when Transport Minister Clarence Howe arose in Ottawa's House of Commons (TIME, June 24), announced that Transradio and British United Press must "show their news source is accurate" or lose their licenses on July 1. B. U. P. was quietly reinstated a few days later. Meanwhile, Transradio's President Herbert Samuel Moore stormed up to Ottawa, angrily claiming there was a plot afoot by "selfish publishing and monopolistic interests ... to destroy independent news services throughout the Dominion." Last week CBC (which sits in judgment...