Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform and the keynote speech were the promissory note; the collateral would appear when the candidate was chosen. The man the Republicans nominated would determine the genuineness of the oratory. The nation watched with curiosity and hope...
...Worse Than Versailles." The Reds' operative word was the magic "unity." Last week the German "People's Council" (a Communist front) trumpeted that the London plan was "far worse than the Treaty of Versailles." The Reds offered an eight-point counterproposal. The gist: Germany must be one nation, indivisible; an all-German provisional government must be formed immediately; Bizonia and all plans for a Western state must be liquidated; Germany must have a voice in future peace negotiations...
...first report on the state of the nation last week, new Premier Wong Wen-hao said little that the Legislative Yuan did not know already. The Chinese Reds held all but a fraction of Manchuria. They were straining the Nationalist lines in North China. Some industry was already moving southward; more might soon have to go. Dr. Wong likened it to the great exodus of 1937-39, when Chinese factories were moved to the interior ahead of the Japs. But he promised: "Even though we are compelled to shift our center to South China ... we shall come back and drive...
...After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, José Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...