Word: centredness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two were among the bitterest opponents of Laval in the Pétain Cabinet. Other non-politicians whom the old Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted...
They began flaunting their bare skin because "Adam had no clothes before he sinned. We have not sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were...
> "We have made decided progress but we have lost most of three precious months during which Congress wrangled and harangued over tax laws. . . . The real bottle-neck has thus been centred not in the Army, not in the Navy, not in industry, but in a certain faction of Congress itself...
Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment...
There lie London's water-supply system, centred at Staines, and several trunk rail lines which, in the absence of an adequate motor-highway system, must feed and supply 8,600,000 people if the Thames jugular is constricted or cut.