Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exchange does not regard all splitting suspiciously. In fact, Schram suggested that corporations which have good earnings records, but high-priced securities, split their shares. This would broaden their base of ownership and ease the shortage of sound, low-priced stocks...
...Britain had recognized Poland's Warsaw Government. But of the Yalta agreement (to broaden that Government by the inclusion of democratic Poles, pending democratic national elections) little was left. The "broadened" Warsaw Government was still dominated by Russia through Polish Communists and fellow travelers. Last week the election promise was deferred. Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski announced that he, personally, would like to see an election soon, but "until harvesting, repatriation and resettlement are finished, we must not divert attention from these basic tasks." Since repatriation and resettlement involve several million people, the Polish election was in effect indefinitely postponed...
...Assembly must rely on its ability to mobilize world public opinion. One proof that this ability can be effective was the care with which the Big Three scrutinized every small-power proposal to broaden the Assembly's powers. The Assembly will control the organization's subsidiary agencies, of which the Economic and Social Council undoubtedly will be the most potent...
Jimmy Byrnes gave Truman a fast fill-in on the Russians, their reluctance to broaden the Polish Government on Yalta lines, and their decision to send a second-rate delegation to San Francisco. Forthwith, through regular State Department channels, President Truman sent a meaningful message to Stalin...
...went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County Court...