Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
...Patriot Sun's Principles: "Nationalism," "Democracy," "People's Livelihood...
...toward economic unity. More & more problems arose requiring national solutions. Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal, although it failed in its frontal assault on the Court, in 1937, was able by indirection to get the Nine...
Last week 14 resourceful songwriters filed suit against NBC, CBS, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Music, Inc. for $1,215,500 on the ground that while fighting American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers the broadcasters had conspired to destroy the livelihood of the composers. Forthwith ASCAP repudiated the suit. Said a spokesman: "We have plenty of troubles of our own without worrying about what those guys are going...
...eight and thirty-five. It seems fair to conclude that the reasons which influenced very young men who had little experience of the rough and tumble of life scarcely seemed valid to those who had the responsibilities of a wife and children, who had occupations which gave them their livelihood and who in consequence had a stake in the welfare of the country. Army life proved unexpectedly popular among the slum-dwellers. They had better clothes, better beds and better food than they had over had before; they enjoyed the change of work and the regular and healthful exercise greatly...