Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri farm boy had some potent bargaining weapons in his luggage. Congress had already passed the reciprocal-trade bill, and was set to approve Bretton Woods and the San Francisco Charter. Russia has already been offered membership on the Combined Coal Committee, and would be invited at Berlin to join the Combined Production and Resources Board and the Combined Food Board. Moreover, in his pocket, Harry Truman held Marshal Stalin's request for $6 billion in postwar loans...
...have a new No. 1 man-and perhaps a new policy-in troubled Italy. Colonel James Henderson Douglas Jr., 46, a Chicago lawyer and businessman now serving in the Air Transport Command, has agreed to resign from the Army Air Forces early this month and join the Allied Commission in Rome...
Within a short time, Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Eighth Air Force will join the Pacific air war. At this point, the Eighth is responsible directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is obvious that an air chief will soon be needed on the spot, to coordinate the strategic bombing operations of LeMay and Doolittle. Best guess for the job: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S.'s top air general at present unemployed...
...advocate any Dumbarton Oaks plan, and then shear ourselves of the power to carry it out, would be even worse than our refusal to join the attempt at world organization...
...same time the Ministries of the Interior and Social Affairs cracked down on the press. New, strict regulations forbade Chinese newspapermen to write anything against the interest of the nation, required all Chinese newspapermen to join Chinese press associations, which are supervised by local representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The press associations must adopt resolutions to spread national policies and the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles: Nationalism, Democracy, People's Livelihood...