Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced one crisis after another in three uneasy years as president, gave a good account of himself. He had balanced the 1947 budget and had $25 million left over (he was $141 million in the red in 1946). Moreover, Brazil's inflation-one of the worst in South America-now seemed to have leveled...
Elder Statesman Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, took a 783-mile hop from Capetown to Johannesburg to crown the "Wool Queen," next day crowned Miss South Africa, in the presence of Miss Britain, Miss France and Miss America (Barbara Jo Walker). Coming up shortly: national elections...
Would the weather be warm or icy after the Italian elections April 18 (see FOREIGN NEWS)? The New York Times's roving columnist-correspondent made no predictions. But, she wrote urgently, "everyone in the arena knows that the battle is as much against America as against Italy and can be lost unless the danger [of a Communist coup] is understood in Washington as well as in Rome...
These nations need the economic aid embodied in the E.R.P. to be sure but what they need more, is help in combating batting the menace of "militant Communism." He called upon America not to break the bonds of the "North Atlantic Community" saying that this was the stronghold of the ideals of equality and freedom so antithetical to the communist ideology...
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the University observatory, yesterday blasted the House Un-American Activities Committee, claiming that it unwarranted attacks on scientists have "probably set back the national security of America by months or even years...