Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
...were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself, but wouldn't yet say whom he had in mind (one possible choice: Republican Foreign Policy Adviser John Foster Dulles). On the Democratic side, there was immediate talk of the party's wonder boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was elected to the House only six weeks ago. But Junior said he'd rather see it go to ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman...
High prices, the world's shift from a sellers' to a buyers' market and the reluctance of foreign traders to buy British as long as rumors persisted that Britain would devalue the pound, had cut deeply into Britain's dollar and gold reserves. The danger point, many Britons had long thought, would be reached if the reserves fell below ?500 million. Last week they stood at closer to ?400 million. To Cripps's many critics it looked as if the crisis was the final proof that his policies should be scrapped. They renewed their demands...
After Premier Themistocles Sophoulis' death (TIME, July 4), King Paul asked Foreign Minister Constantin ("Dino") Tsaldaris, a Populist (right-winger), to form a new cabinet. In his eagerness, Dino promised portfolios to 27 of his friends. At the last minute, he found there were only 25 ministerial posts to fill. With great presence of mind, Tsaldaris simply created two new cabinet posts-Tourism and Physical Culture...
...Western treachery has deprived Russia's greats of their rightful glory is amply illustrated by the case of V. S. Pyatov. In 1859, Pyatov tried to get a patent on his method of rolling armor plate. The czarist government submitted it to "foreign vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs...