Word: restrictionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford Motor Co. suddenly announced that it thought it would be able to turn out chrome-trimmed cars. Ford officials did not elaborate, but best guess was that Ford would have chrome parts made in its restriction-free Windsor, Ont. plant, shipped to Detroit after paying duty.
Sovereignty, pervading San Francisco, dictated the charter's principle of "domestic jurisdiction." Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a...
Would there be a swing to the right, as there was in the U.S. after World War I? If so, the Progressive Conservative Party of ex-farmer John Bracken would win. This party stands for untrammeled free enterprise, a minimum of government restriction, all-out participation in the Pacific war...
President Truman had told Congressional leaders he was against such a restriction. More emphatically, General Marshall wrote to the Senate Military Affairs Committee, spoke of the possibility of "disaster," said "no restrictions should be placed by law on the time when soldiers may enter combat."
Three days later Alabama's Representative John J. Sparkman rose in the House, announced the junction of U.S. and Russian troops in Germany. The House applauded. Then, without a record vote, it unanimously approved what the Senate had done, sent the draft act and its restriction to the White...