Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was still plenty of doubt about Harry Truman's political shrewdness in national politics, but at the congressional district level-and in his own Missouri stamping grounds-he had proved that he could still figure out where the power lay. His personally picked candidate for Congress in Missouri's Fifth District, a political novice named Enos Axtell, scored a decisive victory in the Democratic primary over Princeton-bred Representative Roger Slaughter, who had hacked away mercilessly at the Truman program in Congress...
Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
...Germany, U.S. officers have done their level best to purge German newspapers of all Nazi staff members even if the technical quality of the paper suffered. In Japan, where most newsmen had no philosophy but follow the leader, U.S. advisers have patiently tried to teach the press to reform itself. Last week in Japan the policy of patience was about played out. Said General Douglas MacArthur's Civil Information Chief: "The period of nursing Japanese newspapers...
Bonney expects to receive five times the number of applications acceptable under quota restrictions, even though the quota's pre-war level of 200 has been raised to 296, and announced that of this number only 100 may be Freshmen...
...Gunnar Myrdal, thinks that amalgamation of U.S. whites and Negroes is highly unlikely, because of: 1) a decline in the number of mulatto bastards, who were the products of much blood-mixing in the 19th Century; 2) Negro inbreeding, which will make white-blooded Negroes darker and level the race at a middling brown...