Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crusader, setting forth like Wendell Willkie to take the nation by storm. He was no debonair partisan like Franklin Roosevelt, raking the opposition with scornful broadsides...
Friendly, homy Earl Warren was not mad at anyone. He was simply going out to meet the folks and to show himself, his wife and his pretty 20-year-old daughter Virginia to the voters. He wanted to assure everyone that the nation was fundamentally sound, and that the best way to keep it sound was to elect a Republican administration in November...
...grad had gone back to Oxford for a casual visit. Three days later he came away so shaken and distressed that he dashed off an article about it for the New Statesman and Nation...
...Federal Reserve Board pulled in another notch in the nation's credit belt last week. It ordered its 7,000 member banks to put up some $1.9 billion in additional reserves. It was the second time FRB had used the new anti-inflation powers granted by the special session. (The first was tightening of installment credit, which goes into effect next week.) As banks lend about $6 for every dollar they have on deposit, FRB's order, in effect, cut the lending power of banks about $12 billion...
...writing a book "about some of the things it means to be an American today." But From the Heart of Europe never gets close to that subject. It is one of those embarrassingly naive excursions into politics and world affairs that show the academic critic (Matthiessen is the nation's most assiduous Henry James scholar) with his judgment cap off and his hair shirt...