Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentous session to decide the U. S. stand on neutrality for the opening of World War II. This week a FORTUNE 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...
...Only 1% of U. S. people want Germany...
...editorials the Daily News was saying: "We must keep as cool as we can unless we want to get into this war." As usual, most intemperate of all the Press's many voices were the cartoonists, who emitted characteristically simplified cries of horror, scorn and indignation...
...many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
...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...