Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to say something which will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany. In this way only can France recover the moral and cultural leadership of Europe. There can be no revival of Europe without a spiritually great France and a spiritually great Germany...
Between blowoffs, Gonzalez ran a law practice, served off & on in Congress and did his share of hard work in building up the Radical machine. In 1937, he was a key figure in the creation of the leftist Popular Front (Radicals, Socialists, Communists) which the next year put liberal Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the presidency. As a reward, Gonzalez went to France as Ambassador-which probably cost him the presidency in 1942. For Juan Antonio Rios captured control of the Radical Party in his absence (and after Aguirre Cerda's death) and Gonzalez' hurried return from Vichy, three...
...week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
...Aristocracy. Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot. (Dr. Faure's daughters regarded the village as "une saleté dégoûtante," a blot on creation...
Actually the committee recommended no immediate legislation for the synthetic industry except the creation of a "rubber supervisory body" to keep an eye on developments. For, said the committee "it is quite possible that cost and quality improvements may be such as to enable synthetic rubber to compete in a free market with natural rubber after the latter is again in ample supply...