Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jolt. April-The first robin will be reported in all New England States. The first baseball holdouts will be reported in all others. May-There will be a new ration card. June-[Ex]Senator Prentiss Brown will wonder why he ever took Henderson's job. November-Hitler will proclaim all the Russian armies annihilated...
Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, after a day spent conferring with Petroleum Czar Ickes in Washington, where offices are comfortably warm (see p. 22), returned to icy Boston determined to invoke his emergency war powers, if necessary, to force conversion. His first action last week was to proclaim a voluntary "gasless Sunday...
Determined to avoid retail ceilings because of enforcement problems, Henderson had to proclaim the first one when Pearl Harbor started a buyer's panic for flashlights. Since then curtailment of civilian goods has forced more & more ceilings: on autos, tires, refrigerators, radios, 44 household electrical appliances banned by the War Production Board last week...
...great wartime solution, proposed occasionally for 20 years and passionately for two years by Baruch, was simply to proclaim at any random date that the price, wage and profit levels existing on that day constitute the final ceilings. Where these ceilings were unjust, adjustments would be made later. If such a level had been proclaimed two years ago, says Baruch, a billion arguments, frustrations, delays and inequities would have been saved the U.S.-not to mention billions of taxpayers' dollars in the rising costs of everything, from butter to guns...
This is no American Crusade, and we will never end it successfully if we continue to proclaim it so. We are fighting for the same ends as our allies; it may very nearly be said, for the same ends as our enemies, not to impose different ends. It will do us a lot more good to attach ourselves to these bigger ideals than to keep harping on our separatism. Unless we come to Europe with an understanding of the obstacles to her peace, unless we join with European liberals in overcoming these obstacles, we will never get any basis...