Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a policy confirmed the conclusion of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter that the U.S. is already shifting from a capitalistic to a "laboristic" community-"a community in which employees rather than businessmen are the strongest single influence." Said Slichter: "The U.S. is virtually a nation of employees, since three out of four persons who work for a living are on someone else's payroll...
UNESCO, however, could not ignore the fact that the very country in which it met last week was proudly and openly at war with the Jews of Israel. On the second day of the conference, the Lebanese delegation, supported by other Arab nations, raised an outcry against the admission of Jewish observers from whatever nation. A hot debate ensued until somebody discovered that no Jewish observers were present or intended to come. Sullenly then the Arabs agreed to admit all organizations which had "accepted the invitation" (no Jewish group...
Cominform countries have refused to give Tito the industrial materials his rural nation needs. So, said Tito in a speech, the Yugoslav five-year plan must be drastically changed: less consumer goods, more machinery. Nobody, least of all Communist Tito, expected Yugoslavs to like the new program. He said that there were two methods of persuasion: "By words," or, if that fails,"across your back...
...Chinese father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...
...them a remarkable lecture: "You have not understood the principles of a revolution ... On the day that I sacrifice my life for the sake of principle, the revolution will be a success . . . and my spirit will live forever. Then multitudes of others will follow me . . . Though I die, the nation will live...