Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the broadcasters hit back. Blared NBC President Niles Trammell: "Advertising [is] the vital spark in our way of life." Mutual President Ed Kobak snorted that Bill Paley should have expressed his views in private because such statements were bad public relations for the industry...
Should the Democrats lose control of the legislature Republican forces would exert vital power in committee to augment the blocks they could throw at Administration measures on the Congressional floor. In the Upper House, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who has consistently inaugurated, sponsored, and voted for measures designed to strangle price- control, would assume chairmanship of the Finance Committee. Behind the padded doors of a committee chamber, Taft would have power to do more than merely east another vote. With a record distinguished by support of the relinquishing of claims on tideland oil, and by his effort...
...condemning American support of reaction in Spain, Greece and China, it is not necessary to excuse Russian behaviour in Manchuria, intransigence in Germany and ruthlessness in the Balkans. If the choice has so often been between Communism and Fascism abroad it is because we have failed to support vital economic and social reforms and the democratic forces in these countries that would advance such reforms. My remarks were in support of an affirmative American foreign policy rather than the present negative program of "Stop Russia...
...freedom. Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia lost more than half their libraries; Russia lost 55 million books in the Ukraine alone; the Japanese destroyed nearly every book they found in China and the Philippines. In occupied countries, scholars were isolated for years from the books and periodicals which serve as vital mediums for the exchange of ideas and information...
Mickey insisted, finally took the case to court. The lower courts supported him, but the bureau of vital statistics demanded a higher verdict. Last week the case was being appealed to Argentina's Supreme Court. On its august decision depended Mickey's right to name his children what he pleased...