Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced agenda was a discussion of "the areas of responsibility among fed eral, state and local governments." This might have sounded like a flossy intro duction to Old Guard complaints about states' rights. But Tom Dewey was thinking beyond this. In the first place, he wanted to establish clearly that there are a great many real conflicts between local and federal policies, from taxes to high way building. Second, he wanted to show that most of these conflicts are highly in efficient, that they cost U.S. citizens mil lions of unnecessary dollars and thousands of hours of unnecessary legal...
...undoubtedly an able and capable man. He, however, does not have the emotional appeal, the ability to inspire hero worship that Willkie had. One other factor may keep many people from being enthusiastic over Dewey, and that is the suspicion that he is not fully behind the movement to establish a family of nations...
Even then, unless the election is very close, its actual national strength will be difficult to gauge. This will be all right with Strategist Hillman. For his first task is to establish P.A.C. as a threatening force, to which Congressmen and politicos in both parties must pay attention...
...banking community in general and Senator Taft in particular (see col. 1), agreement on its principles among so many nations represents an achievement of the first order. The members of the United Nations now, at least, have a definite proposal before them in trying to re-establish world trade and prosperity...
...enemy's plan had long been apparent. It was to secure the Peiping-Hankow-Canton railroad, firmly establish the Empire's equivocal hold on southeast China east of the railroad, knock out U.S. air bases there, and try to make the coast impregnable to U.S. attack. It was also to supplement sea supply lanes under fire from Chennault and American naval attack. But only in the last four weeks had the enemy decisively written his plan in military action...