Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggest that every soldier who can get a woman to join the WACs be given a ten-day furlough, and for each additional one he persuades to volunteer while he is on furlough, he be given a 15-day extension. Certainly a WAC for the duration is worth more to the Army than a few days of any soldier's time...
...help pay these staggering sums, the President asked Congress for higher taxes. But he did not suggest what kinds of taxes should be laid-mention of a sales tax being notably absent. Said he: "Individual incomes will be approximately 40% higher in the calendar year 1944 than in 1941, after payment of all taxes. Corporate profits after taxes are running at an alltime high. . . . Let us face the fact- the failure thus far to enact an adequate fiscal program has aggravated the difficulties of maintaining economic stabilization. . . . The estimates presented in this budget are based on the assumption that...
...aware, the OWI has distributed throughout the world lapel badges bearing the picture of President Roosevelt. ... It may be that Private Meyerson resented this propaganda at the battlefront and sought to counteract it. ... I suggest, therefore, in order to keep the Navy free of any charge of aiding New Deal propaganda within our Armed Forces that you make public the censored portion of Private Meyerson's letter, and, if necessary, inquire from him what he sought to tell his mother...
...John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) offers the season's smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
Dolly De Milhau, wartime correspondent for Town & Country, reported from the Florida front: "Next time you're wondering where anybody is, I suggest you come down to Miami Beach, park a camp chair . . . and just sit and wait. Sooner or later everyone you've ever known or heard of is sure to wander by. ... As for the maid situation, there are no maids in Florida. Everybody does her own housework. The usual household consists of a nurse for the children, a cleaning woman two or three times a week, and Madame with her sleeves rolled up the rest...