Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They would tell almost no one about it. The President would just go on the radio some evening, and make the dramatic announcement that he was sending the nation's Chief Justice to Moscow to talk peace...
...ripping into Harry Truman for I'affaire Vinson, Tom Dewey decided to let the President's action speak for itself. It was good judgment and good politics. He would gain both votes and stature by refusing to follow Truman's lead in playing politics with the nation's foreign policy...
Last week, a lot of people thought it was time for the West to make friends with Francisco Franco. They were motivated not by affection for Spain's dictator, but by fear of Communism. The New Statesman and Nation's poison-ivy-wreathed laureate, Sagittarius, described the new approach...
Frank Lloyd Wright, 79, grand old man of modern architecture, thought that the Middle West would be a fine site for the nation's capital because it is "the heart of democratic impulse...
...Secretary Marshall's idea of basing our European defense line in the Pyrenees has been opposed by French national interests. Since the idea first took shape in Paris the French have been understandably miffed at the thought of their country becoming "expendable." A military guarantee to France might erase this objection, and then the way would be clear for the State Department to accept Franco's fascism and his strategic nation...