Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign relations he has moved from 100% isolationism to a cautious endorsement of U.S. participation in world affairs. Before World War II he opposed conscription, lend-lease, the destroyers-to-Britain deal, arming U.S. merchantmen. When Germany broke with Russia he declared: "The victory of Communism in the world would be far more dangerous to the U.S. than the victory of fascism." In February 1941, he said that the danger of attack by Japan was "simply fantastic." He opposed Bretton Woods, the reciprocal trade agreement, the "Voice of America," the loan to Britain. He supported the U.N. Charter but later...
Prince and President shook hands. They stood at attention outside the White House door while a Navy band played the Belgian anthem and The Star-Spangled Banner. Then they went inside for a formal tea. Later, there was a white-tie stag dinner.* The party broke up early...
...nine eastern states, another trout season got under way. By the thousands, fishermen struggled out of bed before dawn, bundled into several layers of clothing, pulled on their waders, tuned up their tackle, gulped hot coffee and were off. As light broke, they slogged into the ice-cold waters of such favorite streams as the Wiscoy, the Willowemoc, the Ausable, the Beaverkill and the Lackawaxen...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...
...voter faces a multiplicity of choices on the ballot, chief among which are: the steadily growing neo-Fascist organization, Nationalistic Social Movement; Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats, the party now in power, backed by the Vatican and the United States; Saragat's right-wing Socialists, who recently broke away from the Nenni left-wing, which is combined with Togliatti's Communists in the Democratic Front...