Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year. Shy but stubborn Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, who inherited the experimental instinct from his great father, Thomas Alva Edison, wanted the Navy to try out small, speedy, motor torpedo boats and submarine chasers. Motored "mosquito boats"* and subchasers did perilous and effective duty along European coasts during War I, afterward were further developed by the British and Italians. Grey, stubborn Admiral William Daniel Leahy, who until last June was Chief of Naval Operations, stuck by his principle that the Navy should aim to do its fighting as far as possible from U. S. shores. With...
Just as U. S. history proved that freedom released man's creative impulses, led to the development of productive forces, stimulated inventions, spurred the commercial development of them, European experiences under Fascist and Communist dictatorships proved that freedom was never lost by a direct assault. He wrote: "The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; [in] slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent actions against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former...
...afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock, "Propaganda and the European War" will be treated by Charles Siepmann; Alan Dudley, of the British Library of Information; Professors Sidney B. Fay '96, and Jacob A. DeHaas; and Heiurich Bruening...
...expert on European history, Brinton is the author of several books, including "The Anatomy of Revolution," published last year. After graduating summa cum laude he took his Ph.D. at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and then returned to take a post in the History department...
...those who care to go up, but Captain Tom Winship of the ski team did not care to make any predictions. "Tommy Thomas, Harry Hollmeyer, and a transfer from Middlebury, Lloyd Butterfield, have a pretty good chance. There seem to be a lot of good Freshmen who've had European experience, but every place on the team is open...