Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. Britain's reservoir of man power, he explained, has now run "practically dry," and in order to fill war factories just coming into production, organization and restrictions must be imposed. In vital industries the right to dismiss employes, except for misconduct, will be removed from owners and managers. Employes may no longer leave their jobs without permission. People whom the Government considers to be in nonessential employment will be shifted, and nonessential industries may be temporarily suspended. Britain's women, Bevin declared, will also have to toe whatever line the Government draws, even if it means placing...
...called on the people of India to fight "to overthrow an unparalleled assault upon the continuity of civilization and tKe peace of mankind," India's response was spontaneous and overwhelming. When, on Sept. 11, 1939, King George VI asked India to fight "for a principle which is vital to the future of mankind," the response was reluctant and sullen...
Murray's own solution to these problems: "Industry Councils." He would have the President appoint councils for each vital industry made up of an equal number of representatives from management and union labor, with one representative of Government to act as chairman. Immediate objectives of these councils: coordination of industries and labor to speed defense. Broader objective: a revision and coordination of the whole out-of-joint U. S. economy. Murray recently took his plan to Franklin Roosevelt (who calls him Phil) and discussed it for an hour and a half. But the President was a "very tired...
...should continue in college. Almost to a man, the college presidents were for postponing students' military training until after their graduation. A Harvard spokesman, President James B. Conant's assistant, John Russell, complained that while defense factory hands were exempted from the draft, chemists-in-training, equally vital to defense, were not. Because they feared being called unpatriotic, delegates eventually adopted a compromise resolution: that Congress should amend the Selective Service Act to let a conscripted collegian finish his current academic year before starting service...
...Lend-Lease Bill gives them huge powers; the American people by passing it will turn over vital decisions to these men, and will be responsible for what they do. No matter how you look at it, this is a shackle on the people; it is an advance commitment to decisions in which we will have no part. There is no denying that this is the only efficient way of doing some things. But a lot--everything, in fact--depends upon the attitude of the men who are going to exercise this power. It is up to them...