Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although mixed Officers' Candidate Schools have been established, democracy in the ranks is still lacking. The refusal by the War Department of proposals for a mixed regiment has been one of the contributing factors to low morale among Negroes. So, too, has the failure of the Army to educate the soldier on racial problems, to offset prejudices not only against the Negro in the United States, but against our colored allies throughout the world. The War Department did not believe such information was necessary since "the colored soldier had won the respect of his white comrades." Meanwhile, minute data...
...Low Point. As he began his eleventh year in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt's fortunes, although at high tide in the world at large, were at a new low at home. To a man of his courage, Dutch stubbornness, and physical optimism this was not a matter of awful concern. He has never minded reaching a low point the year before an election. But on the day of his anniversary came strong strictures from a longtime thick-&-thin Roosevelt supporter, strictures to make even an optimist look to his political fences. Said the New Deal New York Post...
...world as a kind of Hollywood 3,000 miles square, when his sprawling OWI issued a cartoon booklet on the life of President Roosevelt, also designed for distribution abroad. A U.S. soldier sent a copy to New York's Republican Congressman John Taber. Mr. Taber, who has a low irritation point, was moved to cry: "Purely political propaganda, designed entirely to promote a fourth term and a dictatorship. . . . How much longer are the American people going to have that kind of stuff pulled on them...
Among other things, the board recommended joint private-governmental partnership in various post-war industries, particularly aluminum, magnesium, shipbuilding and aircraft--consolidation of railroads into a limited number of regional systems to provide for "efficient and low-cost post-war traffic"--express highways, and expanded and integrated air transport...
Back in 1933, when the reputation of bankers was at an alltime low, one of the wisest of U.S. bankers, Russell Leffingwell, made a moving valedictory to the Pecora Committee. Said he: "We have made mistakes. Who has not? Our boast is that our effort during the whole postwar decade was constructively conceived towards the rehabilitation of America and the world after the war. . . ." Most U.S. bankers, while conceding that conditions after this war will be far different from conditions after World War I, would like to have another chance...