Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is no unsupported claim. Shortly after World War I, Wisconsin began offering frank sex instruction to most of its high-school students. As a result, the venereal disease rate among its drafted [white] men in World War II was the lowest in the nation: 6.3 per 1,000 as against 170 per 1,000 in some other states...
...President was showing his mulishness. Congress was acting like other Congresses. In the final weeks of the Hoover administration, Democrats had sat on scores of Republican nominations. But playing politics with postmasters was one thing, playing politics with the nation's defense program was another. Both President and Congress were disturbing the peace and continuity of administration on which AEC and its contractors depend...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the fifth* of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Massachusetts' Joseph William Martin...
...along with Chile, Brazil and Peru, had taken the lead in calling for common defense against international Communism. No nation opposed the resolution last week, but Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala wanted it broadened to include all totalitarianism. Said Venezuela's Rómulo Betancourt: "Because Communist ideas inspire against peace and security we support the resolution, but we also want to condemn the existence of other types of dictatorships which are an equal menace...
...French proposal granting the "right of reply." (If a nation felt that the press of another country had published false reports about it, it could request that country's government to circulate corrections...