Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you might find it interesting to hear some news from the "new" Czechoslovakia. I suppose that you, as a good friend of out nation, are distressed and alarmed about our fate. Let me say, first of all, that we are all safe and sound and that we, after all, are far from despair. It is quite true that we have lost much in the last three weeks. If anybody were to have told me, a month age, what we were going to lose, I should certainly have despaired. But strangely enough, I do not despair today, even...
...long as the nation remains disunited I am determined not to run for the presidency.. . . This is not mere modesty. It is my sincere conviction...
...critics' choice of Streetcar made Tennessee Williams the leading contender for the title of the nation's most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick...
Beard is indignant about Roosevelt's promise to the nation that he had made no commitments during his Atlantic meeting with Churchill when, in fact, he had. Such binding agreements, he feels, as well as those entered into at Yalta, are inconsistent with the constitutional provision for Senate participation in foreign affairs, sidestep the duty and power of Congress (and so of the people) to determine when or whether the nation shall...
White-haired Jack Ryder, one of the nation's outstanding coaches, had to watch helplessly while Harvard plneked the Eagie right down to the pinfeathers. Despite the score, though, the Varsity performance was not too scintillating...