Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since distribution difficulties within Europe were a big factor, the U.S. might lessen the demand for food by shipping locomotives and trucks. A few ships carrying North African phosphates across the Mediterranean would produce food which otherwise would have to be sent across the Atlantic. Feed for European livestock would...
The memorandum was not made public, but one of its big points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may...
Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, the President's longtime confidential secretary who died last year, made provision in her will for both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. They were free to choose whatever furnishings they wanted from her White House suite, one book each from her library.
All proposals to amend the U.S. Constitution were bottled up for the duration by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The Senators explained that they were mindful of the resentment over the adoption of Prohibition while World War I servicemen were overseas. But what seemed more to the point was...
The provision requiring a two-thirds vote instead of a simple majority to do this is a marked concession to the smaller powers. It means that the Big Five, even when united, cannot commit the world organization to any action without approval of at least two of the Council'...