Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown," he told Columnist Joseph Alsop. "And if nobody's ever heard of you, how the hell do you become a serious presidential candidate?" And, as a wistful afterthought: "If only I could change...
...shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead Rocky will weigh the evidence, not merely of the polls, but of the state of the nation and the world, all of which bear so critically on the fortunes of Vice President Nixon. Said he last week...
...life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global weapon that numbered more than...
...with his wife Katherine (his first wife, whom he married in 1902, died of heart disease in 1927), and where he could work in his vegetable garden, read his favorite books-about Stonewall Jackson, Benjamin Franklin and Robert E. Lee. "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness," said he in his valedictory. "This course has failed us utterly...
...allowed to carry abroad. On the Continent the boom was so solid that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from 1970 to 1965 the date when goods, men and money will move with complete freedom through the six-nation area that already bids fair to become the world's largest trader...