Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than two million Chinese and some 750,000 Indians outnumber the two million easygoing Malays. Many of the industrious Chinese have since advanced far beyond the latter in education and have established thriving businesses of their own. In Britain's plan for self-government and federation with equal citizenship for all, inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula fear that they would become a minority in a Chinese-dominated state...
...House rejected any sort of military alliance with Great Britain 6-1, and, consistent with its optimism over world affairs, conceded the U.N. a slightly better-than-even chance of coping successfully with future international problems. On the national scene, labor and capital were deemed to have close to equal justification in the recent labor-management dispute, but the greatest percentage of votes indicated a "plague on both your houses" sentiment. 61% of the ballots gave ex-Governor Stassen of Minnesota the best chance among the available Republicans in 1948, with Governor Dewey of New York and John Bricker...
...Approved a House-passed bill giving veterans equal priority with Government agencies for the purchase of surplus property...
...Germans, says Knauth, have a proverb about logic: "If you say A, you must say B." Their concentration camps were "A ... the proposition that all men are not created equal. The B was that therefore some men are superior to others. The C was that the inferior men must be subjugated. The D was Buchenwald, and all its counterparts in Germany...
...called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will join a pool to receive Army favors; a New York Herald Tribune's Theodore Wallen will beseech a Calvin Coolidge to make an 'I do not choose...