Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress, according to the best available evidence, is about to become a partner of Franklin Roosevelt in planning the postwar world. The importance of such a partnership can best be judged by what can happen in its absence: 1) no peace treaty negotiated by a U.S. President is worth the paper it is written on unless it is approved by two-thirds of the Senate; 2) no postwar plan can succeed unless the U.S. people and their representatives believe...
...battlefields of Spain, side by side with the new Axis partner Italy, the youthful Wehrmacht tested its new fighting power. While German guns and German bombs killed Spaniards, German warships sailed the Mediterranean and Atlantic on "nonintervention" patrol. The Axis, conceived in 1934, proclaimed in 1936, was developed by state visits between Berlin and Rome, cemented by a military alliance in May 1939. And in the capitals of Western Europe appeasement grew...
...frontiers, but its political, social and economic frontiers as well, ranged from North Africa to the Far Pacific. The words "isolation" and "intervention" were both equally dead-slain not by Franklin Roosevelt but by events beyond the power of any man to control. The U.S. was now the senior partner of all the United Nations, and the problems that this responsibility brought with it were beginning to come home to roost...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...
...this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and something from the Los Angeles zoo can portray the species. Between the antics of these over-anxious characters, the screen is filled with dancer John in chase and partner Betty oh-so undecided about the whole thing...