Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower had to defend his conduct of the Italian campaign last week. But Messrs. Roosevelt & Churchill had their reasons for assigning him to the west. He is the only commander with experience in large-scale coordination of British and American forces. He is particularly respected by the British; Winston Churchill has called him "one of the finest men I ever knew"; London gave his appointment unstinted approval. He has more schooling than any other commander in the management of amphibious operations (French North Africa, Sicily, southern Italy...
...became Director of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace in 1939 when that body was formed under the leadership of James T. Shotwell, and in 1941 was Acting Chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which he and publisher William Allen White set up. Eichelberger has travelled extensively during wartime, visiting London in 1941. He is a director of the International Free World Association, and edits a magazine called "Changing World...
...Mihailovich, had promised not to fight the Partisans again unless attacked. Peter likewise made it plain that he looked forward to a postwar revival of the triune kingdom of Yugoslavia. But liaison officers recently in Yugoslavia had reported only one possible wartime solution: separate areas for the rivals to defend. The prospects for Peter in the postwar world seemed as dim last week as those of his fellow exile, George II of Greece...
Texas' Long Tom Connally, his statesmanlike grey mane slicked for the occasion, rose to open the Great Debate, prepared to defend his Resolution pledging the U.S. to participate in the affairs of the postwar world. But Connecticut's hardheaded, independent Senator John Danaher demanded the floor. John Danaher, his Republican tongue bulging large in his cheek, wanted to propose an amendment, denning word by word the vague terms of the Connally measure. Items...
...start, the U.S. wage and price policies have been an unintegrated mass of rulings and directives, administered by a group of mutually jealous boards and agencies. For 15 months, the Administration has stubbornly held the wage front along the Little Steel formula line; yet it cannot in truth defend the Little Steel formula against claims that living costs have risen 6.2% since May 1942, the formula's terminal. The formula's defenders further argue that while living costs rose 22.5% between September 1939, and August 1943, the weekly take-home earnings of factory workers in 90 representative industries...