Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could have knocked Frank Hague over with a split ballot. In his 26 years as Mayor of Jersey City, he had done more than his bit to establish himself as the U. S.'s prime suppressor of civil liberties. His hired thugs made an almost ceremonial fox hunt out of chasing labor organizers and, especially, Communists out of town. Now the Communists swore they loved him. The U. S. press laughed itself silly...
...plan has been to establish the bases of our resistance, not along the coast or rivers, or at centers of communication, but in the vast interior. . . . [The] war . . . is beyond considerations of time or space...
...kill off the rival New Order and Afrikaner Parties, absorb all anti-British South Africans into the Herenigde Party. His long-run aim is victory in the next (1948) election. His platform then will consist of one big plank: to take South Africa out of the British Empire and establish it as an independent republic. And he will dearly hope that popular strong-man Smuts, 73, will have passed from the political scene...
...Brazil would establish a branch of her national bank at La Paz, and both countries would declare a mutual frontier area where both their currencies might circulate...
...Dunkirk, these haunted men, many of whom could not speak a word of English, wanted to join the British Army. A special company was formed for them. The horrors they had experienced did not make them easy to handle. The film tellingly suggests how the British worked to re-establish the refugees' self-confidence-persuading silent men to talk, preventing others from answering "Yes, sir" and "No, sir." But later, when rifles were distributed, fears generally subsided...