Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Over the years it developed a new breed of Big Man. They were plungers, they were impatient of tradition, and they were fascinated by newness, bigness and the sound of battle. Director D. W. Griffith demonstrated that the jerky, flickering motion picture could be a dramatic form with sweep and magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger...
...sovereign nation with a status equal to The Netherlands' own under the Dutch crown. The Indonesian Republic (Java) would have a large but not necessarily a dominant voice in the U.S.I. The Dutch hoped that more moderate elements in the other islands would balance Javanese extremists and thus form a basis for an orderly transfer of rule...
Government by Discussion. They also provided the new Congregationalist International with a discerning statement of principles. "Our churchmanship," it read, "is inconsistent not only with any form of state totalitarianism but also government by the massman or the mere power of majorities. The rights of man as the child of God and the rights of minorities must be respected...
...Thus, the Pennsy gets 75? for doing almost nothing. Said the commission: these revenues over the years would have more than wiped out the $12 million in accounts payable which the Pennsy claims is now due from the Long Island. ¶About eleven miles of Long Island track form a vital freight route to the Brooklyn waterfront. Fees paid for use of this track by the N.Y. Connecting Railroad (jointly owned by Pennsylvania and the New Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight...