Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This offers an isolated illustration of the achievement possible, but does not alter the general 'facts of China's desperate situation. It must be recognized that any liberalized government inherits the currency mess, and what anybody can do with that is the terrible question. The problem is to achieve a housecleaning of such convincing merit that China's essentially stable people will accept currency devaluation as a necessary step toward realization of good government. Then the reformed government must give the people an honestly good government and peace. That is the only long-range hope that...
...Arch Oboler, the nicest thing about winning a prize is making the acceptance speech. In his twelve years of radio writing, he has done plenty of both. But unlike his writing (Alter Ego, Free World Theater, etc.), Oboler's speeches seldom please radio. In Oklahoma City, in a talk he titled "Bughum" ("humbug, backwards"), Arch paid his respects to radio...
...only the laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers...
...think he is too harsh on Russia than he got from the Tory opposition. He answered them by wheeling round to face his own side of the House as he said: "You cannot carry out a foreign policy on a very narrow and limited basis, neither can you alter history by a slogan...
...union organizer, Bevin knew that the only way to alter historical processes was by organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia is forming on her borders. He has long been eager to balance it with a Socialist grouping in Western Europe. Communists-but not the Kremlin-have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin...