Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally with all citizens...
...That we should develop regional arrangements for collective self-defense...
...White House has not always led through the convention hall. In the first days of the Republic, Presidents were picked directly from the ranks of leading citizens by the vote of state electors (themselves usually elected by their state legislatures). Even after the two-party system began to develop, candidates of both parties were simply named by the members of Congress, meeting in party caucus. But in 1812 the Federalists summoned party delegates to a New York City convention and nominated De Witt Clinton (defeated in the election by the Democratic-Republicans' James Madison). By 1832 the revolution against...
...London's News Chronicle: "If President Truman would take a long, long voyage far out into the sea and speak to no one, there might be some hope of reaching an agreement . . ." Britain's sober Economist pointed a grimmer lesson: "If it [the crisis] is allowed to develop unchecked, the Americans will raise their arms embargo in order to supply the Jews with weapons; and if Britain continues to fulfill its contracts to the Arabs . . . Britain and America will in effect be fighting each other by proxy...
...Gordonstoun and at Salem, the day Degins with a cold shower and five minutes of Christian "prelude"; it ends with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...