Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Was rationing the answer? Herbert Hoover thought not. "If we can succeed in persuading every man and woman, every nation to do their utmost, we shall master this famine." His familiar suggestions for closing the gap without rationing: 1) voluntary reduction in diet by every U.S. citizen; 2) get every...
The garments collected in the drive ordinarily are sent to charitable institutions in the United States, but in response to an urgent appeal from the Dutch Union of Voluntary Women Workers the donations this year will be shipped directly to Holland.
Haile Selassie's titles used to sound absurd when he was a deposed royal out cast - Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah. . . . Last week Haile Selassie arrived in Naples, a dignified, honored potentate passing through the beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the...
Laurels, Old & New. It took German scientists twelve years to develop the V2, and U.S. experts nearly a year to learn how to operate it, with the aid of German technicians working in "voluntary protective custody." But the Army does not intend to rest on its secondhand laurels. Soon it...
Toscanini, voluntary exile from Italy since 1938, had flown to Italy at his own expense, to conduct six concerts without pay. He had obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S...