Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know," said the voice, "I have for three years hesitated to recommend a national service act. Today, however, I am convinced of its necessity. . . . National service has proven to be a unifying moral force. . . . It will be a means by which every man and woman can find that inner satisfaction which comes from making the fullest possible contribution to victory...
...National service," he said, "is the most democratic way to wage war." And that, the nation felt, was true. But why, then, had the President for three years hesitated to recommend it? What had now convinced him of its necessity? "A unifying moral force" would have unified the nation at the start of the war-when unity would have counted doubly, when the danger was deadly and when almost everybody expected such service anyhow...
...modern Japan had their education at Harvard." He mentioned in particular Baron Kikkawa, who wrote of his education here, "Had I lived those years in Japan, I would have been surrounded by so many attendants that I should not have learned to depend upon myself so much . . . I recommend my children to cultivate the spirit of independence so to prepare themselves as to be able to stand in the world without the aid of others...
...years ago, George Marshall was known as "Flicker." (Ever since, his natural dignity has repelled nicknames - while the first-naming President calls Admiral King "Ernie," he always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th in rank). But from the very first year until he graduated...
...castration argument is not over. Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against it. Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle ground: they do not invariably castrate all prostatic-cancer patients, but recommend castration 1) for patients who do not respond to female sex hormones, 2) to prolong and ease the lives of men whose cancers have become widespread...