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...clear fact is that the American people must recast their thinking about national protection. . . . Our defense as it was yesterday, or even as it is today, does not provide security against potential developments and dangers of the future.'' What smoldered beneath his words was the warning that the U. S. is arming, and will have to arm with all its might & main, because the world that is closing in on it is no longer safe for democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Billions for Defense | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...happened fills us with horror and sorrow. . . . Neutrality as such is no defense in these times. We have no illusions. ..." So spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Reds For Friends | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...defeated was Utah's King, who had embodied his hope of economy in a proposal for an automatic cut of 10% in all appropriations made by this session of Congress. The rest of the Senate's economy bloc had either yielded too or, succumbing to political schizophrenia, recast themselves as members of the Senate's farm bloc. When the bill came to a vote, only 14 Senators mustered courage to vote No. Even such Democratic economizers as Adams, Byrd, Byrnes, such Republican economizers as Taft and McNary, had not the political heart to say Nay. Even Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Economy's End | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...fourth resolution recast the amending process making a simple majority vote sufficient to change the constitution. There were four provisions in the fourth resolution providing that the new constitution could be adopted by a majority, amended by a majority, that the government set up under it could be reformed, altered, or abolished by a majority, and that amendments will be submitted for referendum of the people by the President

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 STUDENTS DISCUSS CONSTITUTION REFORM | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

Harvard and University of California have faculties of nearly 2,000; Columbia of more than 2,000. Small college men felt that Surveyor Visher should have taken faculty size into consideration as well as number of star-winners. If his ranking were recast on that basis, these ten universities would lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star System | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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