Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported to have read clippings identifying Peter J. Cloherty, a Maguire employee, as "a participant in several Boston political scandals." In actual fact I read only a portion of one newspaper clipping (from The Boston Globe) which merely identified Cloherty as having worked for John F. Kennedy in the 1940s and listed a few other positions in which he served during his political career...
...accepted. "Just a plain story about human beings," as Hughes called it, was not acceptable from a black writer. But you have to accept Harlem in the Evening on Hughes's terms, as a story about human beings, in a world he knew best: Harlem in the early 1940s. There is no overbearing emphasis on racial strife, though it is inevitably present; no modern stereotyping of older caricatures, portrayed as Hughes put it, "with an eye dead on the white market," though occasionally his characters lapse into archetypes...
...second cause of the severe 1973 inflation was the devaluation of the dollar. This event had its roots in the late 1940s, when the capitalist economies of West Europe and Japan were in ruins. In order to ensure that these countries remained pro-U.S. and non-Communist, the Government gave them financial aid, while assuming much of the cost of their military establishments. As a result, Western Europe and Japan had the resources to invest in modern plants which produced goods at low cost. After 1958, this foreign competition invaded markets at home and abroad and the U.S. began...
Bill of Rights. But those benefits are 5 proving woefully inadequate. A World War II G.I. could get up to $500 for tuition at a college or university, plus a subsistence of at least $75 a month; that was sufficient in the late 1940s. Today's veteran receives $220 a month to cover tuition, books, fees and living expenses. Only for veterans at low-tuition state and community colleges is that amount even close to adequate. "The picture is bleak," says Maryland Senator Charles Mathias Jr., who has co-authored a bill that would raise the allowance...
This situation could not last long without prompting resistance. When the Viet Minh began mobilizing in the early 1940s, land reform was at the top of its agenda. And similarly, when the U.S.-backed Ngo Dinh Diem regime refused in the late 1950s to implement a serious land reform program to redress the century-old grievance, peasants in the south began to resist, forming the National Liberation Front in 1960. Today, the Thieu regime has reversed its faltering steps toward land reform and handed back vast tracts to the former owners, while reforms in the NLF-controlled areas...