Word: groundwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth estate") had been even more specific. It charged Britain's Tory press lords with operating monopolies, kowtowing to advertisers, distorting and withholding the news, and blacklisting (i.e., refusing to mention) political and personal enemies. To investigate charges of this kind, and perhaps to lay the groundwork for regulation of the press, the House of Commons voted to set up a Royal Commission on the Press...
...joined Producer Wanger in a new postwar trend: shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...
Aware of totalitarian tendencies still alive in Germany, the Bonn Conference also laid the groundwork for outlawing the Communists or any neo-Nazi group. The constitution provides that political parties may be ruled unconstitutional if they attempt to abolish "the free and democratic basic order...
With this groundwork prepared, Hughes blasted the U.N. subcommission, and claimed it had "drafted a code to establish what newspapers in this country and throughout the world may and may not publish." This code, wrote Hughes, "could supercede the first amendment of the Constitution if adopted as a treaty by the senate...
...comparable to Vandenberg's in the Senate. Foreign affairs have been his specialty ever since he started in public affairs in 1915, and recently he has risen to prominence as leader of the Congressional Food Committee in 1946 and Director of the Committee on Foreign Aid which laid the groundwork for Marshall Plan...