Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants no such government, in the interest of equal world citizenship, to force the U.S. to open its doors to immigrants from all nations, be they Japs or headhunters from Borneo...
...Zone. "The First Zone of Safety shall be to set up a trusteeship when this war shall have been prosecuted to the day of unconditional surrender. I propose that the trustees shall be Russia, Great Britain, the United States, the producing and effective nations, with China a full and equal member. . . . These trustees . . . shall administer the territories and people and economy of our enemies. . . . This trusteeship shall be indefinite in point of time. ... It will set up local governmental machinery. ... It will police the territories. . . . One of its first objectives will be to restore France to its rightful place...
...grass roots of private enterprise-with the nation's 2,000,000 employers (90% of whom employ less than, eight men)-and see what can be done about arranging for this production and this employment. If enough businessmen will do their smart part, the sum total may equal the beyond-the-horizon frontier toward which U.S. hopes are directed...
...Fourth, we do not ask for equal rations with the Army and Navy as some dispatches report, but only that our points be used to provide meals on an equal, with other civilian colleges. Fifth, students comparing food in Adams and Dunster with that served in the Navy found that the food was different...
...invitation of women's and culture clubs, lyceums and Chautauqua, Phelps delivered some 10,000 cheery lectures to some five million delighted listeners. On the air for Swift's hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw...