Word: impor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be inferred from the open and above-board teaching of a course on the principles and implications of Communism in an American college or university, where everything is open to the scrutiny of parents and trustees and anyone who may be interested . . . That is why it is so impor tant for you to weigh with scrupulous care the testimony concerning secret schools, false names, devious ways, general falsification and so on, all alleged to be in the setting of a huge and well-disciplined organization, spreading to practically every state of the union and all the principal cities...
Come December. Excess-profits taxes, earlier reduced from 1 00% to 65%, would! end entirely by December. More impor tant, the $17 billion total expenditure was 31% less than last year's, and 91% of it would be paid from revenue. The next budget might be even better, for more than 40% of this one goes to defense supplies, demobilization gratuities, war contract terminations and other non-recurring expenses...
This was Washington's biggest international meeting since the 1921 Disarmament Conference. Some enthusiastic commentators described it as the most impor tant meeting since Versailles. But by its own definition the conference was merely exploratory, on a technical level. The conference will not discuss the heart of all the problems of postwar peace - what to do with Germany and Japan. Nor will the conferees ever discuss the countless important subsidiary questions, such as the problem of boundaries...
...spending many millions of dollars south of the border, suspicion of the gringos was again on the rise. The 13th Pan American Day was approaching, and Good Neighbor oratory was in order, but Ambassador Messer smith considered it necessary to play the stern mentor. Said he, in his most impor tant speech since he took over the Embassy in early...
...forward pass that put Minnesota on Michigan's 5-yd. line. Smith was injured on the next play, but his teammates scored for a 7-to-0 lead that the Wolverines were unable to budge. It was Minnesota's eighth successive victory over Michigan. More impor tant, Minnesota is now in a place where, if it gets by Northwestern this week, it should beat its remaining opponents (Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin), should deserve a leg on the Williams Trophy...