Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most pungent words came from tousled William H. Davis, who was first chairman of the old War Labor Board. Said he: ". . . Settlement of labor disputes by Government fiat is destructive of all the creative values of collective bargaining. ... I cannot impress [on you] too earnestly . . . the absolute necessity to realize that we must now return to self-government. This is far more important than any immediate crisis that seems to confront...
...Triumph of the Will, a Nazi film made in order to impress the German people and to scare everybody else-a frightening example of cinema's potential for propaganda...
...British agreed not to withdraw their troops from Indonesia but to clear an area sizable enough to impress the nationalists and give the Dutch a base from which to negotiate. The Dutch agreed to initiate talks with the moderate nationalists, to pay a higher political price for order in their Empire. Dr. Van Mook prepared to return immediately to the trouble zone...
Clement Attlee, who did not greatly impress the President during their first meeting at Potsdam, will argue that: 1) all atomic information be pooled in the Security Council of the United Nations Organization; 2) atomic research and development be internationalized; 3) military use of The Bomb be mutually renounced...
...went to Sofia last week, as special investigator for Secretary of State James Byrnes. The U.S. envoy was Editor-Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, on leave from the Louisville Courier-Journal. He got a reception as warm and rough as a Bulgar peasant's hand. Ins & outs, vying to impress him, battled for his favor in words and street brawls. The reason for such heated interest: U.S. recognition of the Bulgarian Government will hinge largely on Ethridge's report...