Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles Treaty and post-war diplomacy, the authors go hard on France, easy on Britain. Politically unclassifiable, Graves & Hodge are proLabor...
...examples of the need for such a job were particularly evident last week: the freezing of Axis assets (see below) and various import difficulties such as the coffee situation...
...these Latin floors with a U.S. ceiling, Brazilians would yell. It would have a bad effect on the milreis-likewise on the good-neighborly State Department. But if shipping space gets scarcer, the price of coffee may get too high even for State. In that case some sort of import control would be necessary...
...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...
...Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue is the artwork...