Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month before George Marshall proposed the Marshall Plan at Harvard in June 1947, Acheson first outlined the basic doctrine in a speech at Cleveland, Miss. Before returning to private law practice in July, Acheson charged that Moscow was blocking "the whole course of recovery and the international pursuit of happiness'." He was denounced in Pravda for "a gross and rude slander...
...became the darling of the Townsendites (though he nimbly avoided endorsing the Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...
That summer Humphrey got to thinking: the trouble with liberal politics in Minnesota was that Democrats and Farmer-Laborites fought each other instead of the Republicans. He took a day coach to Washington, sold Democratic national headquarters on his plan for fusing the two parties, returned home and presided at the wedding...
...Malan's government did not seem to care unduly about the psychological effects of its actions. It was already working on the next phase of its plan: the abolition of Negro representation in South Africa's Assembly...
...help keep the clinic going, he advertised, and that resulted in his being expelled in 1930 from the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society, for "unethical" conduct. Organized medicine, Schmidt retorted, was fighting his plan for low-cost medical care. He was given a clean bill of professional health by half a dozen other medical societies, by Northwestern which kept him on the faculty, and by St. Luke's Hospital, where he was senior attending urologist. Today, he is generally credited with having fathered the laws for premarital and prenatal tests for syphilis...