Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-One Congressmen. Radio Commentator Quincy Howe cracked that Mr. Hull's Seventeen Points put the Secretary of State seven points up on God, three up on Woodrow Wilson. But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man. If the President's and the State Department's deeds matched Cordell Hull's words, no one could complain that the U.S. has no foreign policy...
Canada's plan for an international air policy was announced last week by an American-smart Wayne Parrish, editor of Washington's American Aviation Daily. Four days after Editor Parrish printed the details, U.S.-born Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe confirmed them...
...warmed to the Canadian plan (see p. 18). The British, it was reported, thought the exemption of U.S.-Canadian lines weakened the United Kingdom's bargaining position. For the competition-minded U.S., the plan was far too tight, politically too hot to handle. But Minister Howe's proposals clearly demonstrated that Canada must be considered in postwar air talks. Said Minister Howe: "The geographical position demands Canada be given an important place among nations...
...Minister Howe announced that Canada will immediately start production of a four-motor transport plane "that is considered probably the best plane of the next five years...
...temporary loss of his mind. The year after he was discharged, Mary suddenly seized a kitchen knife, wounded her imbecile father and stabbed her mother through the heart. Thereafter Charles made a vow never to leave his sister. Unmarried, devoted, they lived together for 35 years (1799-1834). Author Howe's touching study centers around the eccentric, fascinating household of this most curious pair in English literature...