Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many, perhaps most, of those who enroll in the course will be going for the fun of it. Still it is encouraging to see Harvard turn its eyes to South American shores. America must strengthen the bonds of friendship with its neighbors before trade relations can be bettered. While a Harvard delegation is hardly expected to win Latin amity at one fell swoop, the trip deserves praise on the old theory that "every little bit helps...
...active progress; we can prevent the rise of a Fifth Column of dissatisfied citizens by extending democracy to every American, and by adapting our social and economic systems to meet the needs of a free industrial America as they have never yet been met; we can strengthen our defensive arms--developing the navy, the air force, anti aircraft protection, and a reserve of needed minerals and materials through stock piling-- preparing to defend this country and this hemisphere if at any future time that becomes necessary; we can arm in this way, confident that defensive arming involves no such militarization...
...strengthen widespread impressions that the Herzog-Sinclair deal just about smashed the boycott, Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay claimed that Sinclair properties represented 40% of all those confiscated in 1938. In reply the boycotters, led by Standard Oil of New Jersey, cracked back that 10% was a more accurate figure for the Sinclair properties. The Mexican Government, complained Standard, is now apparently getting ready to supply Sinclair with oil partly taken from the expropriated properties of Standard and others...
...however, Dorgan has not been able to establish his right as an individual outside the University governing body to interfere with the power of the Corporation to appoint its teachers. Harvard hopes to strengthen its position by placing its case on the ground that Dorgan or any other outside prosecutor does not have the right to interfere with the Corporation's appointive power...
...Socialist Party has ever and always stood for peace. It seams pathetic that now the party's leader should allow an antipathy for what he conceives to be the red tendencies of C.I.O. and H.S.U. to stand in the way. He has his chance to strengthen the largest and most effective efforts being made here for peace, yet he prefers to serve a splintering role. Someone ought to tell him about the bundle of sticks parable: you can break them separately but not together. If he objects to the United Front on domestic matters, that is his privilege, but this...