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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's top economic advisers had a description of the country's present condition: "There are four stages of economic deterioration-concern, apprehension, jitters and panic. We're now somewhere in between the upper levels of concern and the lower levels of apprehension...
...beef at $27.80 a hundredweight. Several days before the deadline, which was set for noon one day last fortnight, Army buyers assured them that it was the likeliest bid yet received. Taking no chances, Uruguayans in Montevideo phoned their Chicago agents 15 minutes before the deadline, told them to lower the offer to $27.63. That, said the Army, practically settled the deal; Washington would probably confirm it within half an hour...
...wrote. "To that extent, at least, the Constitution follows the flag. It is no defense for him to say he acts for the Allied powers." To cope with the dilemma, Douglas evolved a novel formula: the Japanese now serving war-crimes sentences should bring suit in lower U.S. courts against their American jailers (and those who command the jailers) to determine whether they have been imprisoned illegally. ' Naturally, the proposal was of no help to the seven Japanese executed for their war crimes. Two of them were among those who laid the issue before the court...
Last week, mild-mannered Jules Feldmans, carrying his credentials as charge d'affaires (a lower rank since he had not been appointed by a government), was given the full and formal State Department protocol treatment in Washington. He was warmly received by Secretary of State Acheson. For six minutes, lounging in a leather armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...