Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt is going to his second Big Three meeting with an asset he did not have in full measure at Teheran. He takes with him the crystallized support of the U.S. people for everything that he may need to do to establish the U.S. in the world's postwar business. The only question is what he intends to do with his unique grant of power...
...urged the President to establish the Office of War Mobilization, and helped persuade Jimmy Byrnes to step down from the Supreme Court and take the job. He lost one fight: he wanted a National Service Act right after Pearl Harbor. But the President vetoed the idea, on the grounds that public opinion would not accept it. (Once a Presidential course is set, Hopkins stops arguing. He also defers to no one in his estimate of the President's ability to gauge public opinion...
Reign of Terror. These democrats were a small minority in the mass of pro-fascists, but later, from Istanbul, Timesman Levy cabled more serious charges: the average Bulgar "hoped that as soon as the dictatorial fascist regime in Bulgaria was overthrown, the Allies would assist his country to establish a true liberal and democratic government. But instead, he feels, Bulgaria today, four months after liberation from the Nazi yoke, is subjected to a Bulgarian dictatorial regime as unbearable and distasteful to the vast majority of Bulgars as was the former Nazi-inspired fascist government...
...elementary democratic principles as free speech and free press criticism are taboo. The writer, having just returned from a six-weeks' stay in Bulgaria, is convinced that the vast majority of the people in that country are bitterly disillusioned. They ardently are hoping for early Allied action to establish a democratic regime...
Paulette Goddard, long an inspiration for students of anatomy, announced that she and her husband, Burgess Meredith (see below), planned to establish scholarship funds in a number of U.S. colleges and universities. The first scholarship (valued at $10,000) will go to the University of Southern California, to be used for scientific research...