Word: send
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace over to the greed, the fear and the intrigue of European nations...
...survey will show that: 1) two-thirds of the American people are against a strict U. S. isolationist policy; only 25% oppose all trade with belligerents; 2) 83% want Britain and France to win the war; 65% thought they could (before Russia came in); 3) 17% are willing to send U. S. armed forces to fight for the Allies, and 20% favor helping them by all means short of war. Further FORTUNE findings...
...power--"measures short of war"--to aid the Allies. It is a very simple and a very selfish reason: the best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms. It is sufficient reason for the immediate lifting of the arms embargo and a willingness to send the Allies all the munitions and raw materials which they can purchase. All this, of course, within the limits of cash and carry, the loan embargo, and control of American citizens or shipping...
...play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America and the Far East, Peacemaker Duggan said stoutly: "I look upon this war as an interlude in our work. We intend to continue stronger than before...
...Britain, the Ministry of Labor set up a Central Register of Persons with Scientific, Professional, Technical or Higher Administrative Qualifications. Persons so qualified who want to help the Allies win the war send in their names to the register. Government departments and industries send in their demands for trained personnel. The Central Register officials then match qualifications against demands, suggest a specific person for a specific job. If mutually satisfactory, the appointment is made. At week's end a large but undisclosed number of scientists had registered but few allocations had been put through...