Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Berlin, Russell Nixon, acting U.S. member of the German External Property Commission, charged the State Department with trying to "hamstring" EPC's efforts to trace, freeze, and seize German-owned foreign property. State's denials were as sweeping and spirited as Nixon's charges...
...Nixon: the State Department is adopting a "do nothing" attitude. State: for "a period of years" we have maintained a special unit for eliminating German economic influence abroad; we have sponsored many international agreements to trace and eliminate German interests. (It was the U.S. that pushed the external property program through the Allied Control Council...
...English-speaking Canada's conception of the perfect French Canadian. Handsome, dapper, with close-cropped hair that has turned from black to grey since he entered the Cabinet, he looks like a storybook Frenchman. Yet not even the most suspicious outsider can find in him the slightest trace of Quebec provincialism...
...nine of N.R.D.G.A.'s exhibits which OPA has been able to trace, seven were phony, said Bowles. Example: a shoddy $5.50 iron was a poor version of a shiny, solidly built product which the New York manufacturer had originally shown OPA to geb a favorable ceiling. OPA now has him in court...
...books which were not strictly philosophic or religious but which implied profound philosophic and religious issues were William Aylott Orton's The Liberal Tradition (TIME, Dec. 3) and Norman Cousins' Modern Man Is Obsolete. Professor Orton's book sought to trace the decomposition of liberalism through the loss of its spiritual content. Author Cousins' 59-page essay is written with a kind of urgency less eloquent than headlong. When the atom bomb vaporized Hiroshima, he says, it rendered obsolete "every aspect of man's activities, from machines to morals, from physics to philosophy, from politics...