Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself. It refused to let Daladier speak of French-Polish military agreements, and ruled that events long antedating the declaration of war were not subject to survey. But the men in Vichy had reason to crawl when Daladier read into the record that in 1934, Petain had refused to strengthen fortifications at Sedan (where German troops first broke through in May 1940), that it was Petain who in 1934 slashed a military appropriation from 600,000,000 to 400,000,000 francs, that the Supreme War Council had refused to consider new types of guns...
...Deal. Anything that meant a forward step toward greater democracy has been automatically denounced by this Southerner. A poll tax Representative himself, he has no conception of what is real democracy. In his language, anyone who is progressive, anyone who wants to see our democracy grow and strengthen is a dangerous communist. In short, he has done the same kind of harm to this nation that French fascists did to theirs. They all sing democratic tunes, but to Nazi lyrics...
...others. "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man" exemplifies the first phase, "Ulysses" the second, and "Finnegan's Wake" the last. If it might seem to some readers that the last two have achieved only the most tenuous relationship with "others," Levin's study does much to strengthen the bond...
More than any other one man, Dr. Mott is responsible for the Y.M.C.A.'s great international organization, which now numbers 2,000,000 members in some 10,000 local associations in 60 lands. He pioneered in training native-born Y. workers, saw them strengthen the Y.'s influence in such lands as China-where six members of one Chiang Kai-shek Cabinet were former Y. secretaries. He personally has raised more than $300,000,000 for his causes...
Tipoff: it has been predicted that, bad as Army & Navy supply has been, OPM is so much more hopeless that the gambit now is to forget OPM, strengthen the services with business talent. The board that he heads must now attack the job of leading some 50% of U.S. industry...