Word: vis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened that, flanked by a naval onsign on our right and an army lieutenant on our left, we found ourself vis-a-vis the Soviet banner, rendering homage. With the hammer and sickle firmly entrenched in the Stork Club, we thought, the brotherhood of man cannot be very...
...Grounds for some hope that she might lay in Japan's position vis-à-vis a Germany victorious over Russia, another aspect of Japan's so delicate situation. Not even a Japanese could foresee last week what the vast U.S.S.R. might look like if its western armies were destroyed by Germany, but there was a grave possibility that Germany's hegemony would extend to the continent of Asia. To be considered then would be probable German encroachment on Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, possible German support of China against Japan, the ultimate possibility...
Argentina last week still awaited the comeback attempt of ailing President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, while Acting President Ramon S. Castillo moved to make his temporary Government permanent. Of all South American countries Argentina is the most independent-minded (vis-a-vis the U. S.), and at the same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino...
...previous FORTUNE Forum termed the New Deal tax policy one of the two principal deterrents to lasting business recovery. This week the Forum had a chance to tell why. Chief criticism vis that the Administration lacked courage in facing the tax problem: 80.7% believed the New Deal was afraid to let voters think about tax costs, thus was trying to raise too much revenue through hidden taxes and soaking the rich. Another big criticism of the present policy: it is penalizing business initiative by taxing speculative and expanding businesses more heavily than conservative investments...
...Angeles there blossomed a Tax the Bachelors League Inc., founded by Mrs. J. Winifred Vis and friends. Its platform: tax bachelors, give proceeds to "bachelorettes...