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Winston Churchill is presented as the prime mover in these objectives. President Roosevelt is depicted as opposing him, but powerless to overcome Church-ill's determination...
...increased production cannot be absorbed if wages do not keep step with prices. This gap between the two will be widened if labor's power is destroyed, for who is going to protect the worker's wage when his union is made powerless? This union-killing policy will lead us only to another depression. After World War 1 the unions were weakened; prices and profits seared, but wages lagged. Buying fell off, men lost their jobs and we faced the great depression...
...President arrived at his press conference with the warnings of his economic advisers ringing in his ears. They had told him that the threat of recession was growing. But the President protested that he was powerless...
...watch the clattering down of the British Empire, with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs...
...G.I.s took their troubles to the Veterans Administration, and were told that VA was powerless to help. Last week, however, Smith's President Herbert Davis finished a study of the will and made a manly decision with which the trustees agreed. Said he: the will declares that the leading object of the college shall be the education of young women. "A 'leading object' implies the existence of ... subordinate objects." On that ground, he decided, it was in his power to grant degrees to such subordinate objects...