Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentioned as a possible administrator of the Marshall Plan almost as soon as Congress began discussing the program. His chief sponsor was George Marshall; he also had the approval of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. In his testimony before Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee, Hoffman outlined his conception of the nation's task in Europe: "If production can be increased by one-third quickly, Western Europe will be on the way to prosperity. ... A half-hearted program is likelv to be worse than useless...
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 second of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of California's Governor Earl Warren...
Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
Never before have the attitudes and acts of one nation mattered so much to so many people in the world as every impulse, wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...Bartenders International Union--contains a minority Communist influence has nothing to do with the issues of the current case. The demands appear to be both just and modest; and the striking methods have been reasonably mild. Should the Club refuse the present offer to arbitrate, alumni throughout the nation should bring pressure to bear on its management. The name of Harvard should not be connected with the sort of cutthroat labor practices that such a refusal would make evident...