Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering Congress last week, it seemed as if the whole wide Western world was demanding: "Daddy, I'm tired, carry...
...while, in the first hopeful months of Marshall Plan aid, Congress was able to congratulate itself for carrying out the largest and most generous effort in the world's history. But now it seemed that those five billions would not be enough. Great Britain had got the lion's share of ECA help; now she wanted at least an extra half billion this year. There were official hints that a stabilizing fund was necessary to save the pound. No sooner was the North Atlantic Treaty ratified than there was a demand for a billion and a half...
...President of the U.S. this week asked Congress for $1,130,000,000 to help arm America's European allies. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, U.S. Army Director of Plans & Operations: "This is one of the critical moments of our history. I mean that...
...fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
...years, Polish-born Count Alfred Korzybski has been preaching that if men only used words accurately, they would begin to think accurately, and the world would be that much better off. Last week, some 250 of Korzybski's disciples gathered at the University of Denver for the third Congress on General Semantics (and the first since 1941). Their big question: "Have we made any progress since the last congress...