Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century. Led by Manoel de Nobrega in 1549, the first six Jesuits in Brazil began to plan the "new state" . . . anticipating the moral equality of all members of the human family. Through miscegenation and education, No brega and those who followed him hoped to create a new nation, if not a new race, homogeneous and thus harmonious...
...days were warm and pleasant, the nights were still cool, and U.S. citizens began to think happily of summer vacations in the mountains, on the shore, or pounding along the nation's sun-shimmering highways. For a change, there was hope in the international air, too. In the smiling rose garden back of the White House, Harry Truman spoke to a group of war correspondents who were off to revisit the wreckage-strewn Normandy beaches on the fifth anniversary of Dday...
...choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf of the B-36 would be rewarded with the presidency of a "huge aircraft combine," Symington said flatly...
...murdered, but it is the South which again was lynched in the unreasoning fury of a cowardly mob." There was some question whether it was actually the act of a mob (see above). But inevitably, the report of the year's first lynching* attracted wide attention in the nation's press, obscuring the slower, less spectacular but undeniable improvement in the Negro's lot in the South...
Last Wednesday the American press reported a 54-page statement by the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association. The statement, "American Education and International Tensions," was made by "20 of the nation's top educators." The newspaper stories shocked a few people, surprised a lot more. Among those both shocked and surprised were "20 of the nation's top educators...