Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutra comes to the U.S. as President of a nation whose friendly relations with the U.S. go back to 1789, when Thomas Jefferson met a group of young Brazilian students in Paris and encouraged their dreams of independence. As a Brazilian foreign officer put it: "We are taught three things in school: believe in mother, God, and the friendship...
...expenditures, looks to the U.S. in peacetime for the aid that private and public capital can give to the building of the country. Brazilians want to tap U.S. technical skill for the development of the natural resources that are spread in abundance over the world's fourth largest nation. In area, only the U.S.S.R., China and Canada are larger than Brazil...
Voiceman Herrick is confident that superior U.S. and British technology can lick the Soviet jammers. In this sort of warfare the offensive generally has the advantage. It is almost impossible to drive all unauthorized words out of a nation's air. During World War II, the Nazis used massive jamming equipment and also made it a capital crime to listen to Allied broadcasts. But the news still got through...
Then President Truman, who loves to trade Bible learning, quoted from memory another pertinent passage (Isaiah 2:4): "And . . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Fifteen minutes later they were still swapping biblical quotations when the President's secretary reluctantly broke in to announce the next caller...
...Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut had no notion at first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state...