Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Record one vote for Mr. E. P. Holton's plan for the settlement of England's debt to the U. S. It is the only way in which England could discharge her debt, and it offers the only sensible reason for giving England our support in her present difficulty. In addition to Mr. Holton's suggestions, I suggest that Newfoundland and Labrador: 1) be given to Canada, 2) be given complete independence, 3) be given...
...must have been to many other Americans of Irish birth or descent, was TIME'S (Sept.11 issue) omission of Ireland's leaders in the list of those of other European countries as of September, 1939 . . . In her position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly, Mr. Flynn and others like...
...present our government is preparing industry on a vast scale for a climax known as "M" day. It has been brought to my attention by several people concerned with the coffin industry that their business is being completely overlooked. During World War I the shattered remains of Americans were buried in foreign coffins, thereby showing how we failed to give domestic employment to hundreds, as well as dividends to the coffin stockholders. Therefore I am hoping that TIME will support this noble cause by demanding that our government order from various coffin makers hundreds of thousands of coffins and have...
...police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were the representatives of Germany, Italy, Japan. Conspicuously present on the floor was a captain of the willful opposition, Michigan's Vandenberg, who never turned his eyes from Franklin Roosevelt...
...problem of actually converting America's peace economy to a war economy, will be left, under present plans, to temporary civilian agencies under the President, created especially for the work, and demobilized at the end of the emergency...