Word: douglasism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spokesman for the important policy change was the U.S.'s No. 2 diplomat, Under Secretary of State (for Economic Affairs) C. Douglas Dillon. "Either we move ahead to get rid of outmoded trade restrictions," he told the 54 nations represented at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
Working with Dr. Peter Dubach, Douglas Pratt and C. M. Stewart, Professor Smith was studying the hibernating larvae of woodboring beetles (Melandrya striata), trying to isolate the enzymes that digest the cellulose on which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was...
The one Socialist representative cast his vote for Senator William O. Douglas in an open fight, for Senator Hubert Humphrey in a closed Democratic contest, and for vice-President Nixon against other Republicans.
THE greatest battle in the history of naval warfare, which destroyed the Japanese fleet and swept clear the sea roads to the Philippines and Tokyo, raged across 500,000 square miles of churned and bloodied Western Pacific Ocean 15 years ago this week. This was the Battle for Leyte Gulf...
Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific...