Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was only the first of many serious problems. He must forthwith come to grips with Congress on subsidies, on taxation. He must devise a new strategy on the inflation line, and submit his 1944 budget. He must soothe ruffled feelings in WMC and WPB, and-eventually-venture into the hot race-relations fight between his Fair Employment Practice Committee and Southern railroads (see p. 18). He must also, incidentally, save his own party from breaking in two. And on the hottest of all issues, the soldiers' vote bill, he must work out some fruitful settlement with Congress...
...they were not all necessarily anti-Willkie but they did not want to be even casually labeled as Willkieites. Fred Baker tried to read his program at a formal dinner; he was stopped. He tried to present it in open meeting; he was balked. All he could do was submit it to the resolutions committee, of which he was not made a member...
...sore issue of Russia's border states-Finland's Karelia, the Baltics, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia-has been specifically discussed before, if not at Teheran. Russia has agreed to submit the status of the Baltics-Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania-to public referendums after the war. Russia is very sure that the peoples of those countries will vote for their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
...Enemy. Not only the rulers but the people of the Axis nations are our enemies. "We cannot overthrow the Japanese military caste short of complete defeat of the Japanese people such as will compel them to submit to our discipline...
...wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole life write one line of poetry serious or comic or make a Rhyme even.") A Miss Low asked...