Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute's closing session will be given over to authoritative discussion of U.S. responsibilities. In the past year these responsibilities have been exercised in a largely negative way, i.e., necessary resistance to Russian expansion. But in the long run, U.S. leadership must be positive and must extend in full vigor from the field of diplomacy into economic organization, education, morals and wherever American ideals may find expression. This does not mean that the U.S. will attempt to dictate or interfere with the policies of other countries. It does assume, however, that the world looks to the U.S. for more...
...that many of your readers are on the right track. But they're going the wrong way. Byrnes's fame rests on his struggle against ruthless power to enforce its will on the plain citizens of the world. It is this evil power and its attempt to extend itself . . . that has provided the most significant news of 1946. I therefore nominate for Man of the Year the greatest personification of that power-Vyacheslav Molotov...
...during the month of January Petersen said, "We will make known in early January whether we intend to make draft calls in February and March." The present Selective Service Act runs out at the end of March and unless the War Department feels it necessary and Congress agrees to extend the law there will be no more "Greetings" from the President, he explained...
Formality v. Courtesy. Schlesinger agrees with Emerson that "defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions," and holds that today's abhorrence of snobbish formalities should not extend to contempt for simple courtesy. He finds promise of improved manners not so much in private homes as in public dealings: 1) in the businessman's realization that courtesy increases dividends; 2) in the wartime effort to make the G.I. respect the forms of citizens of other nations; 3) in the basically polite approach of the Good Neighbor Policy...
Letters of congratulation from prominent world statesmen poured in as the group got underway. Wrote Senator Warren R. Austin, D.S. Delegate to the U. N. Security Council and Chairman of the American delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, wrote. "May I extend every best wish for a vigorous and effective organization in our guest cause...