Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A close friend of President Truman and a member of the President's Economic Advisory Council, Keyserling will support the administration stand on inflation control through government intervention.
Speaking for the Arabs, Isam S. Kheiry '51, of Jaffa, Palostine, said, "It is very terrible. I will not accept it." He believed the Zionists would quarrel and cause foreign intervention.
Proud of His Slap. General Patton's boasting is more straightforward. In a final chapter called Earning My Pay, he cites 34 instances during his career when "my personal intervention had some value." Among them he includes the notorious slapping incident in Sicily. Writes Patton: ". . . Had other officers had...
"The Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help...
Down to Earth (Columbia). In Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), a suave master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher...