Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet "a question of old-age warships...
...this war," Alf Landon charged, "regardless of what our part in it may be, this little group of New Dealers hope to establish, beyond repeal, their collective State...
When Hankow fell three years ago the warlords grudgingly permitted Chiang Kai-shek to establish his national capital at Chungking in their Province. Chungking's first big bombing in May 1939 gave Chiang an excuse to establish control of that city and eastern Szechwan. Gradually he brought his own armies into the Province, thrust his appointees into provincial posts. He forced the warlords to send troops to the front, while his own men cracked down on opium bootlegging, main source of the corrupt warlords' revenue. By last year Chiang was so firmly in control that he could install...
...those who had been at Eton. Hitler had forgotten Harrow, and he had also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed only by the few, shall be far more widely shared by the men and the youth of the nation as a whole" (TIME, Feb. 17). But Old Harrovians are still able to take such heterodoxy-from...
...Their claims that Alcoa was party (through Aluminium Ltd.) to an international cartel, had conspired to fix prices, divide markets, keep competitors from entering the field, and restrict imports were all rejected (although certain to be aired again before the Supreme Court). "Not only has the Government failed to establish the charge," said Judge Caffey, "but the evidence is convincing the other way." Because of uncertainties about materials available, automakers last week put a brand-new phrase in their ads: "Specifications subject to change without notice...