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...state at the outset that I support provision of the maximum tools of war to Britain; that I am convinced we can give this maximum during her next critical months only if we keep out of this war; that putting our Navy into action is joining this war; that the whole European war situation is in transformation; that America is as yet unprepared even for adequate defense; that our people are not united. To go in now is neither wise nor for the interest of either Britain or ourselves...
...should be emphasized, however, that if this last principle had been adopted at the outset, no reservoir of men for new essential work--either scientific or Industrial, the result of wartime experience--could have been created...
...only thing to do is to send them to the electric chair. Other senators and representatives favor compulsory arbitration laws. The administration, however, believes in voluntary mediation for the present, and it has received justified praise for staving off the extremists, by setting up a board not from the outset hostile to the needs and aspirations of labor. But even voluntary mediation is hardly the solution. Where arbitration is possible, strikes seldom occur. The causes of the present strike wave are a matter for action rather than mediation. Profits and prices have been going up in the war boom. Wages...
...straight at the outset that we're not afraid to die. Youngsters our age aren't, you know. We haven't lived long enough to be afraid of death for ourselves or to fear for the consequences of our death on others...
...Philadelphia Saturday night, it was a different story. Here the Crimson jumped into the lead at the outset and never gave it up, winning eventually by a ten-point margin, 44-34. Buckley stole the show, sinking the ball from all angles to rack up eight field goals in the first half, one in the second and two free throws for a twenty point total