Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 100-year-old present constitution is tailor-made for men of bad will who would make themselves the law. Under it, a governor has so little power that he cannot appoint his own cabinet; he is subject to the will of boss-appointed "department heads." A fabulous bureaucracy has...
The Council, dominated by the Big Four (which France later might make Five), would actually control the organization by making all the major decisions. Seven small nations, elected by the Assembly and serving in rotation on the Council, would have a theoretical majority vote. But the Council could not call...
¶ Senator Robert A. Taft, author of the Soldier Vote Act provision which has caused all the rumpus, agreed to meet with the Army's enforcing officers to see if they can agree on just what the law means. Republican Taft declared that the Army "has badly misinterpreted both...
Thus was ending the seventh year of China's war. It had not been a hopeless year. At its end, the Chinese no longer felt that they had been fobbed off with nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done...
The exact terms of these compromises are being fought out at Bretton Woods. Whatever the terms, Congress and Parliament will certainly criticize them and perhaps reject them. In fact, only one provision of the proposal is not likely to be criticized: after a three-year breathing spell no member shall...