Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shape of the order was nearly determined at week's end. The President planned to establish a new Economic Stabilization Board: Price Boss Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, Budget Director Harold Smith and probably an outside chairman as yet unnamed. The board would administer price control, formulate wage policy, make tax recommendations...
Thus humanity must not try to get "back to normalcy" after World War II as it did after World War I. "The only stability attainable in human affairs," says Carr, "is the stability of the spinning top or the bicycle. . . . The survival of democracy depends on its ability to establish control over those economic forces which have hitherto defied its authority...
...wake of the English army follows the British banker with his money bags, to establish peaceful relations which are based on sound psychology. Behind the German soldiers marches the organizer with sword in hand, mindful of the words of General Blucher who warned that the fruits of the sword must not be destroyed by mistakes of the pen," said Hermanns...
...Marines landed. Out of the shallow invasion boats and through the surf thousands of them scrambled to establish beachheads on key points in the Solomon Islands. For the first time the U.S. had seized the offensive on the battlefield...
...believed-and we believe today-that all peoples, without distinction of race, color or religion, who are prepared and willing to accept the responsibilities of liberty, are entitled to its enjoyment. We have always sought-and we seek today-to encourage and aid all who aspire to freedom to establish their right to it by preparing themselves to assume its obligations...