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According to what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had heard, Mrs. Ericksen was not only unfair to lamb chops, she was unfair to youth. Mrs. Roosevelt had heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion...
...trainees for industrial defense. There was a sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social Security Board showed there were 657,000 unemployed skilled craftsmen; employers claimed that they were shorthanded. A partial explanation (offered by U. S. Labor Statistician Isador Lubin): geographically, workers and jobs had not yet got together...
Walter Millis: "I believe what MacLeish said to be exactly true but easily misunderstood. Battleships are useless unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think...
...prevailing U. S. mood affected Congress in other ways. Compulsory military training, partial peacetime conscription to hurry expansion of the Regular Army from 280,000 to 400.000 men-these drastic departures from U. S. tradition were gravely discussed, raising hardly a ripple of the horror which would have surged in waves six months ago. About the means of Defense (appropriations, taxes, man power) there was no hesitancy, no serious question in Congress last week...
...completes his partial mind...