Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice is not therefore between 'accepting American dictation' and the continuance of an independent British line. It is between taking the steps necessary to make the British economy solvent now, with America's active cooperation, or taking them in six months' time in the middle of economic disaster and with America perhaps contributing no more than a melancholy 'I told...
...will speak English," he said. "I only speak a little but we will get on." He beckoned me to sit down in a large armchair, leaned over and asked me cheerfully: "What do they say in America about my fight with the Cominform?" I replied: "They are very much interested, but they would like to know much more about it." Tito smiled and dropped the subject...
Shoes & Soap & Communists. Giuliano has been careful to build up a reputation as the friend of the common man. One of his earliest victims was Salvatore Abate, postmaster of Montelepre, Giuliano's native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre...
They are concerned, said Dr. Bowie, because they believe that the "clearly stated Roman Catholic purpose 'to make America Catholic,' if it succeeded, would jeopardize the religious and civil liberties which have been the glory of Protestant countries and of Protestant culture. The Protestant holds that every soul is accountable to God, that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes, and that, in the long run, where there is spiritual independence, truth can be trusted to emerge. On the other hand, Roman Catholicism is not only a religion but a type...
Slowly the diggers are piecing together a picture of what America was like in its earliest history. But the more they dig, the more complex the picture seems to look. Once the experts thought that the Basketmakers of the Southwest were the first U.S. inhabitants. But apparently the country was already full of crude, prowling citizens soon after the glaciers melted (about...