Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough fighters or bright young men were being developed in the unions to take their places. The class barriers of the bad old days had enriched the labor movement by keeping men of ability like Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin within the working class. Latter-day Bevins would not be forced to work as dockers or pop vendors. With government scholarships, bright boys would end up as smooth-tongued Oxford dons like Board of Trade President Harold Wilson. The gap between Labor Party men in the government and the men in the unions was growing...
...American tars were struck by a difference between Spain and other European points. There were no cries of "chicle, chicle" or "cigarette" that generally haunt the U.S. Navy elsewhere in foreign ports. "What's the matter with these fellows, anyhow?" asked Chief Warrant Officer Milburn ("Duke") Holmes of North Platte, Neb. "They won't accept our cigarettes and want us to smoke their smelly black tobacco. I haven't been able to pay for a glass of sherry in town-but they sure look as if they could use some extra money or some food...
...neglected sector of Western Europe's defense, State thinks that the only way to liberalize Franco's regime is through the hostility of U.S. opinion towards the Spanish dictator. Now, wailed DOS men, Franco would be harder than ever to liberalize. Undeniably, the Navy's independent foreign policy had bolstered Franco's internal position...
...express from Shanghai clanked to a stop in Peiping's Chien Men station. Waiting on the platform was a solid array of Communist bigwigs-Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Commander in Chief Chu Teh, foreign affairs expert, Chou Enlai, a score of lesser party bosses and assorted "democratic personages." From the train into this welcoming group stepped dignified little Madame Sun Yatsen...
...young missionary, newly arrived in India, had hoped to bring the Gospel to some remote village. Instead, the Northern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him to Allahabad Christian College, 70 miles from Benares, and there he got his orders. "Higginbottom," said the principal, "you will have to teach economics." Higginbottom knew little of economics, but he did as he was told. He also did as he was told when the principal said: "The new missionary always has charge of the leper colony. Higginbottom, that is your job now." Thus, at the turn of the century, Sam Higginbottom began...