Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term record of three wins and three losses at stake, the Debate Council will meet Amherst in a simultaneous "home and home" twin debate on the topic of federal world government and the United Nations...
...been mayor since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
Marshall applied this warning to the U.S. public today, noting "a natural tendency to relax and to return to business as usual, politics as usual, pleasure as usual. Many of our people have become indifferent to what I might term the long-term dangers to the nation's security...
...Britain has a lot of industrial know-how. Americans who think they have a national copyright on that term would do well to abandon the illusion. Britain has tangible industrial resources. Not all plants are worn out. Not all management is behind the times. Britain is not literally broke...
...Government took control of wheat during the war and closed free trading in wheat on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. But this was the first time Canada has stretched a wartime expediency into long-term peacetime policy. The new bill would make the Wheat Board the world's biggest trader in wheat. Buyers both in and outside Canada could deal only with the Board; Canadian farmers could sell only to the Board at its price; no railway or elevator company could receive wheat without a Board permit. The Board could even suspend any farmer's right to ship grain...