Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subjects are chosen by the Editors for inclusion in the rapidly growing MARCH OF TIME Forum Edition 16 mm. series. This series is designed to fill a need among study and discussion groups for films to be used as background for open forums on topics ranging from "Music in America" to "Airways of the Future," from "New England" to "India...
After Yale (where he always stood first in his class) and Harvard Law, he and younger brother Charles (now the layman president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) set up a one-room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine...
...Russia he declared: "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later voted against participation in U.N. "As long as vetoes are insisted upon," he said, "there is no real will to peace. . . ." He tried to limit ERP to $4 billion, but finally voted for the $5.3 billion foreign-aid bill...
...trailed off in angry mutterings; Finland had a breathing spell . In France, the Communists were hanging back, not sure what to try next. Even Greece was relatively quiet. The most exciting action in which Communism (allegedly) had a hand occurred far from the battle zone, in Bogota (see LATIN AMERICA...
...people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things, for which the U.S. asked neither thanks nor service, be enough to persuade the Italian people to vote for their...