Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how Spanish bishops are to be chosen, under the new informal, unwritten agreement between the Holy See and Dictator Franco, was revealed last week by a semi-official Vatican news agency. The Vatican will '"suggest" three names for any episcopal vacancy-there are now 18-and Dictator Franco will select one, pass it back to the Holy Father. "This accord," said the agency, "guarantees to the Holy See freedom of choice...
Buck-Passing. From this background, Congress cynically watched the White House to see if the President would dare suggest Federal economies. But Mr. Roosevelt had just recommended a $158,000,000 expansion of the NYA program. Recently when reporters brought the matter up, the President growled like a sore bear. He defended the NYA and CCC appropriations, then passed the buck back again...
That is the assumption on which the Federal Council of Churches' distinguished Committee to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace this week began lining up the organized support of U.S. Protestantism for a revolutionary move. They did not go so far as to suggest that the U.S. should follow the Golden Rule. They did, however, propose that Congress set up a Federal agency to study the economic harm that might be done to other countries by any proposed change in U.S. foreign trade, tariff, immigration or monetary policy...
...other words, the Committee did not suggest that the U.S. abridge its right to pass laws which might throw thousands of people out of work elsewhere (as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff did). What they urged was that before such laws can be passed, Congress should be legally bound to ascertain what their effect abroad would be, so that it could legislate with its eyes open...
...Armed Forces of the Pacific proceeds to compare in detail the physical strength of the Japanese and U.S. fleets to draw conclusions from the Russo-Japanese War and the Battle of Jutland to suggest the commonly supposed hankering of Navy men to go beat the Japs while the beating is good...