Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet puppets capture Western Europe, "I would become a pessimist with regard to avoiding World War Ill," President Conant told the Boston Rotary Club yesterday. "We must therefore do all in our power to see that the 16 nations of the European plan preserve an economy which will keep immune from the virus of the Soviet Philosophy...
...photographed kissing tour of the city, he managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue.* He also delivered himself of an opinion on the Marshall Plan which disclosed that he had not altogether forgotten the paternity suit against him (TIME, March 15): "When it comes a-weanin' time [those European countries] are gonna squeal. You ever weaned a baby, honey? No? You try it, honey...
...beautiful, black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire, Leonora Carrington was born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
...wife of Francis J. McCormick,* a prospering Dayton engineer and importer, she went along on his European buying trips, studied every country they visited, wrote a few pieces for the Times magazine section. In 1921, when they were about to sail for Europe once again, she jotted a timid note to the late, great Carr V. Van Anda, Times managing editor, asking if she might send him some dispatches from abroad. Van Anda wired her: "Try it." She did and impressed him with her shrewd judgment of Benito Mussolini ("Italy is hearing the master's voice") when other correspondents...
...must the displaced European Jews be forced to remain on the continent that has served as their slaughter-house, continually threatened by latent anti-Semtism? Why, after they have built a comparatively modern nation out of a wasteland in one of the outstanding social experiments of our times, must the Palestinian Jews be thwarted, not by their own inadequacies, not by the forces of nature, but by the duplicity of friends...