Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis did not spring primarily from dissatisfaction with the leadership of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.* It arose, rather, from the people's suspicion that they were being deceived by do-nothings in Churchill's War Cabinet, in Parliament, at Transport House. Observers found that the people, particularly younger workmen and the rising number of British Socialists, were in a mood for: 1) a dangerous display of resentment, which might take the form of a nationwide, one-hour protest strike; or 2) an equally dangerous feeling of national frustration, with leadership out of touch with the people...
Said Statesman Stimson: the U.S. has never yet fought a great war without drafting its youths of 18 and 19 and its younger married men.* In World War II, these classes will have to be drafted again-not within the next few months, but certainly some time. Mr. Stimson's statement was the War Department's answer to the nauseating optimism of Congressman Andrew J. May (TIME, July...
...recovery, unemployment will be greater even than in the '30s. Congress must become revitalized and strengthened. Many voters fear that the Republican Party is slowly dying. This argument cannot be met by the passage of resolutions. It can be met by sending to Congress a number of younger and more alert Republicans, with clear-cut convictions on world and social problems...
Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...
...promote the naval air arm by making Rear Admiral John H. Towers, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, a vice admiral and vice chief of naval operations for air. Lost too was a parallel program to relieve a shortage of high-ranking aviators by promoting a number of younger naval airmen on Towers' coattails...