Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan Investigating Commission were instructed to check on charges and countercharges of frontier violations, provocations, guerrilla fighting and general hell-raising along Greece's frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were...
...sooner we realize that our elementary education system is responsible for the average American's political naivete and gullibility, the sooner the necessary steps can be taken to correct the conditions and institutions involved. It would be far wiser to divert the funds involved from Army Information and Education to the subsidization of school systems. Willard Hertz...
Ways and means can be found to divert bulky school endowments from new gyms and libraries to better paying university chairs and finer research facilities, but eventually, all these problems resolve into the one broad question of whether the Federal Government should, as President Conant recently urged, subsidize the American educational system. If modern thinking holds that education is not a luxury for those able to afford it, but rather a social necessity for all capable of profiting by it, then the Federal Government, the one instrument equipped to reach all the people, must be partially responsible for assistance. Federal...
...enough coal and steel to keep going for another week-unless makers of parts had to stop production before that time for lack of steel, coal, or power. (Birmingham Gas Co. this week notified its industrial customers that if temperatures went down to freezing, it would have to divert their entire supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential...
Meanwhile Arnold Rivkin 2L, a member of the group's National Planning Committee said that "we oppose any attempt of communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...