Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1943, the committee tangled with the War Relocation Authority, which was handling the touchy problem of Japanese-Americans moved inland from the Pacific Coast. Committee investigators reported that the internees were among the best-fed civilians in the world, and a sub-committee charged that the Relocation people had released 23 members of the fearsome Black Dragon Society. But Representative Eberharter, third man on the sub-committee, made a minority report. He denied that the Japanese were being coddled, noted that of the 16,000 released by the WRA, none had been hauled in for subversive actions...
Temple's power sprang from the fact that he saw every part of life, and every problem put to him, as part of an integrated universe which he could grasp as a personally integrated man, dedicated daily to God. His writing and preaching were designed to make religion relevant to everything-politics, economics, art and science...
...City, took along an observation carload of reporters to witness the first use of a TV set on a train. The receiver was specially built by Bendix engineers to eliminate such bugs as landscape blocks, high speed (the train hit 80 m.p.h.), and static caused by passing trains. Biggest problem was the antenna. Because of the low clearances allowed by trestles, tunnels and overpasses, the antenna could rise only 15¾ inches above...
...charm. Since Novelist Wakeman is not exactly a dazzling writer himself, he has not created a very interesting one; nor is John Payne equipped by nature to play an author with much plausibility. Since Saxon's conduct, 90% of the time, is about as uncharming as possible, the problem of selling him to an audience ought to be tougher than it turns...
...Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...