Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles de Gaulle's message to the World Jewish Congress in 1941 : "Free France . . .is resolved to establish [equality] of all citizens...
...below), in eleven (by Red count) of China's 28 provinces. In Manchuria, Communist officers bluntly told U.S. newsmen that they intended to keep control of that strategic region after the Russians moved out. Clearly the Communists were on the defensive as the Central Government moved to re-establish its authority north of the Yangtze. Their alarums amounted to a final plea to the U.S. to save them by ceasing to help Generalissimo Chiang regain all China...
...this year locked horns with Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, threw every personal and official weight against him, and for a time seemed to be winning. Hundreds of thousands of Argentine students, workers, businessmen, army men, politicians rallied to Spruille Braden's call: "We . . . must and will establish . . . the inviolable sovereignty of people...
...same time, he recommended that Congress prepare legislation to establish a 40, a 36 and a 30-hour week. Commerce, industry, the trades and agriculture would be classified into three major divisions and three work weeks. But all would get the same weekly minimum wage...
...industry didn't know which way to turn. With a grim smile at Ford's dilemma, President George Christopher of Packard said, "It is damned nice to be the first guy to produce cars, but it isn't so nice to be the first guy to establish the price...