Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious; you go to church; he plays tennis with the vicar. ¶ I have about me something of the subtle, haunting, mysterious fragrance of the Orient; you rather overdo it, dear; she stinks...
Grew, United States pre-war Ambassador to Japan and earlier to Turkey, started his career with the State Department two years after graduation in 1902. He entered retirement in 1944 after serving as Under Secretary of State upon returning from the Orient...
...housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
Prospective missionaries to the Orient will find some sobering reading in the words of Anglican Bishop Stephen Charles Neill, now traveling in Asia on behalf of the World Council of Churches. To the British weekly Record Bishop Neill wrote...
...face of a continuing pattern of Administration ineptitude and the emotional tug of the Wallace candidacy, how does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational...