Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics he once said: "I am what you might call an independent Republican with Socialist leanings who frequently votes Democratic." Though com pletely loyal to Franklin Roosevelt, he could serve any other President with equal zeal. His only passion is for efficient government. This accounts for his office-holding longevity. The political prima donnas - Czars, Assistant Presidents, No. 1 Brain-Trusters, No. 2 New Dealers - may come & go, but the Smiths go on forever...
...London at 4, 6, 8, 10 p.m. and midnight (plus at least three flights daily from the Continent). That was the postwar schedule predicted last week. Flying time from London to the U.S. will be 15 hours. In all, some 300 persons a day will fly westbound (with an equal number headed east) in luxury airliners capable of carrying up to 57 passengers, plus heavy loads of mail and freight...
...With equal satisfaction Consolidated stockholders fingered the latest financial report of young (42), blond Alden Gallup Roach, harddriving, quick-thinking Consolidated president. In the six months ending last February, the 241,617 shares of common stock earned $2.81 apiece (in 1935 the shares were valued at exactly...
...ideal of collective security resulted in Wilson's attempt, through the League of Nations, to establish "a union of 50 juridically equal but otherwise unequal states, and not the evolution of a union from a nucleus of firmly allied strong states. ... If the League was a practical instrument, it contained an alliance, and all good and true men, including Wilson, were opposed to any idea of an alliance; if in fact the League outlawed alliances, and still sought to enforce peace, then it was an unlimited commitment supported by no clear means of fulfilling...
...decision freeing Communist parties throughout the world from direction by Moscow. The Executive Committee urged the workers of Fascist or Fascist-occupied countries to be saboteurs and the workers of the United Nations to aid their governments. The aim: "friendly collaboration between nations on the basis of their equal rights...