Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discussing post-war economy at a meeting of the Youth Group of the League of Nations in Lowell House Junior Common Room. Forman proposed that similar movements be carried out by an international association organized by the United States and Britain to have complete power to reconstruct world trade and to stabilize business cycles...
They are not on the defensive; they are determined to reconstruct. There is a mountain of anger throughout the country against the ideas and the men who brought the country to September...
...seek. It went back to last winter, when Patullo and the Premiers of the other eight Provinces journeyed to Ottawa at the invitation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The Prime Minister wanted the Premiers to agree to a more rational economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier...
...will take historians years to reconstruct the Battle of Smolensk shot by shot. But it is already possible to reconstruct its general outlines. For the Russian plan of defense was based on a single document-a field manual designated as PU-36, which was drawn up in 1936 by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, then Vice Commissar of Defense. It was his last great service to the Red Army. He was executed in the purge a year later...
After the fall of France Pétain was drafted by a reactionary bloc of deputies to reconstruct France by a "national and social revolution." Since that time his announced plans for the elimination of France's "capitalist hierarchies" have remained mere blueprints, while his proposed bans on labor unions, strikes and protests are in force today. He has developed an aptitude for sonorous political pronouncements whose vague and lofty words do little to conceal their totalitarian direction...