Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans do not like to be 'pushed around' any more than British people do. Along with the feeling that everyone is 'born free and equal' and ought to have an equal chance in life is a spirit of hope with great expectations for the future. In spite of many shortcomings America is a new country where past achievements are only a starting point for the future. You will be welcome in America, for you too have taken your chance and embarked on a great adventure. Americans admire courage. They will wish you good luck and happiness...
...future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25 years illiteracy (reduced from approximately 90% to 51% since the U.S. took possession in 1899) could be eliminated. Water and land transportation would be socialized, and large retail cooperatives established...
Secretly Governor Wallgren began calling in sound engineers, grew more & more excited. Finally he announced: "The Capitol possesses a musical sounding board the equal of the most famous in the world. . . ." There were hasty comparisons to the Vatican and the Mormon temple...
With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...