Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Senator Vandenberg's close friend, Washington Correspondent Jay Hayden of the Detroit News, revealed that a serious version of this dream is now very much on the Senator's mind. Launching a carefully drafted trial balloon in his column, Hayden reported that an "active movement" to make General Douglas MacArthur the Republican Presidential nominee in 1944 is now under way, that its unofficial headquarters is Vandenberg's office. His desk is littered with MacArthur biographies, his favorite being Bob Considine's MacArthur the Magnificent. Politicos by the score come to discuss the General...
Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt last week finally came right out and told youthful U.S. radicals that they could go too far-in fact, that some of them had. To a Manhattan conference of the U.S. Student Assembly (one of the few remaining signs of an intercollegiate youth movement-most youth is now organized in U.S. uniforms), the First Lady declared...
...Transport's Problem. As students of strategy like Harold George have long known, a war is fought primarily by logistics-the. supply and movement of men and materiel. But it is probable that few, if any, of the Army's experts on strategy realized how complicated logistics would become in the global developments of World...
...came approval - in principle. Though Britain was officially cool, Winston Churchill, then a political outcast, wrote: "Why should Europe fear unity? As well might a man fear his own body." Edouard Herriot, Briand's bulldog, wrote a book called The United States of Europe (1930). But before the movement could get anywhere, Depression and Hitler intervened...
...Bill of Rights for all Europeans, guaranteeing freedom of speech, worship, movement, etc. Individuals throughout Europe could appeal from their national courts to the European Court for enforcement of these basic rights...