Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory. In advertisements, Lustron Corp.'s $8,000 five-room steel-enamel house looked bright enough. But until last week the prospects of producing many looked dark indeed. The steelmen who run the Department of Commerce's voluntary allocations had turned thumbs down on prefabricated housing ("not successful...
According to Barnaby, "it would be like drawing to an open-end straight, a straight which would have been a full but for the weather's intervention."
Into the record went Henry's written polemic of 11,000 words, while, with Running Mate Glen Taylor at his side, he read abstracts from it. The Marshall Plan, he said, was a "blueprint" for war, a "colossal hoax" on the people of the U.S., and would "impose Washington...
In 1943 he had signed a pact with the Soviet Union. "Mr. Stalin," he had said, "I have complete confidence. . . . We have signed an agreement for non-intervention in domestic affairs, and I know you will keep it." Only a few days ago, he had again summed up his faith...
To make partition stick without all-out Arab-Jewish war would require military intervention. Where was it to come from? The U.S. would not send its own troops. It did not want an international force-that would include Russian troops.