Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robbing the Economic Cooperation Administration of some 25 percent of its effective strength would have seemed extremely unlikely one month ago in the face of an overwhelming American public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more...
Two further awards for study at Cambridge University, England were announced. The Lionel De Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske 3rd Scholarship at Trinity College, both given in memory of men killed in World War I, were presented to Justin Edgerton Gale...
"Actually I don't think it's a problem to be seriously concerned about," is Valpey's feeling, however. While complicated in its own right, the imported Michigan defense puts more emphasis on rushing than on the loops and waltzes of the bygone Harlow days. "Personnel idiosyncrasies change under different...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for...
"The outlook," the survey concluded rosily, "is that consumer expenditure . . . will continue in expanding volume . . . It is possible that immediate consumer demand for certain types of durable goods has increased further since the survey, which was taken before the proposed increase in military expenditures."