Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence of our own colonial peoples" was "humbug, deceit and hypocrisy of the worst kind." He declared that the U.S. was ready to use British bodies "to blast a way into the markets of the Continent and establish the financial system of Wall Street...
...Strikes for any purposes but straight wages, hours, and safety measures have been outlawed. Before workers can be called out, labor must observe a "cooling off" period which might better be described as a warming up period for management. Requiring registration of union membership gives bosses their chance to establish an effective, all-inclusive blacklist. Above all, the vote of the House in passing on the bill indicates its division into Northern Democrats against Southern Democrats and the entire Republican bloc. This anti-labor alliance has the power as well as the inclination to pass a bill outlawing all strikes...
Britain's present aim, he added, is to establish a Reconstruction Committee to revive devasted nations and give war emotions a chance to settle, before attempting any type of written agreement...
...council hopes to establish a permanent organization through which students can devote themselves to the specific study of the post-war world. A substantial grant from a New York philanthropist gives them a real opportunity to put the idea across. It will facilitate the eventual establishment of similar groups in other colleges, held together by some sort of national publication. These plans are embryonic at present, but success here will give them a great boost...
...Egypt would soon be lost. Turkey would find the Germans knocking at her back door and, in the absence of the British, would have to kowtow to their proposals. The loss of Turkey would force the British to choose the more direct overland road to Russia in order to establish a common front. This might well be impossible...