Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey Plan. Tom Dewey had several objectives, limited but definite. The St. Louis meeting had a broad and carefully designed base. Tom Dewey's first and fundamental job now was to do the very thing which Wendell Willkie had neglected during the key July-August period of the 1940 campaign-to organize, incite and generally set in motion the thousands of state, county and precinct Republican political organizations...
Next morning they met again at 10, and again plowed on & on into the night. But when they rose from their labors the second night, they were agreed on a 14-point statement, an optimistic charter expressing their agreement on a broad use of federal power in cooperation with the states, to promote the U.S. economic and social welfare. Wrote Scripps-Howard's Tom Stokes: "He [Dewey] buried, once and for all, the ghost of old-fashioned states' rights." For the agreement forged at St. Louis called for continuing, in the main, all the federal services to which...
...bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four normal years. Then Congress dumped the actual settlement of cases into the laps of Internal Revenue...
...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...