Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME rates a straight "A" for its efforts in making the organization of the 40 & 8 look bad in the eyes of the American people [Sept. 7], I would remind TIME that first, notwithstanding the "white" issue, the 40 & 8 was formed to propagate the American Legion and its high patriotic ideals; secondly, to date, the 40 & 8 has given the National Child Welfare Division of the American Legion $1,017,935; and thirdly, the 40 & 8 has in operation at this time a nurses training program. If this is indicative of the type of society your article portrays, then...
...adjectives for 40 & 8, like "fanny-pinching and town-wrecking" and none at all for the parent American Legion? Let me suggest a couple: the public-till-raiding, socialism-for-us-but-not-for-you American Legion...
...pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality and, as we say in Russia, for your bread and salt. Let us have more and more use for the short American word 'O.K.' " And Nikita Khrushchev was gone...
Soon even some of the biggest wheels in Detroit began to doubt that U.S. consumers wanted their cars so big and bright. In the forefront of public doubters was American Motors' President George Romney (TIME, April 6, 1959). Privately, there was also Ed Cole, who had been working on a compact car for years...
...American authorities took a deplorably long time in awakening to the possibilities of this scheme, and even with Thursday's World Bank action Monroney's idea is far from realization. Details of the IDA's charter must still be negotiated, and since the United States must put up one-third of the initial funds, the whole plan can fall through if Congress withholds approval or appropriation of funds...