Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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General Billotte has stated the case so clearly that even the most backward of men (e.g., certain Washington bigwigs) cannot fail to see the danger . . . The facts are startlingly evident, and the methods of meeting them are obvious. Action must be taken soon...
...prestige of Harvard rests not on its conformance either to the status quo or to whatever backward trends might be in governmental favor, but to its maintenance of the principles which have gained for it a reputation of being one of the most liberal and democratic schools of the country. Don Long '49 Chairman, John Reed Club
Even the full appropriation is not too much for this measure, one of the most important parts of President Truman's foreign program. He announced the plan in his inauguration address last January, when he requested aid and technical assistance for backward countries throughout the world. At that time several United Nations groups began preparing methods of distributing any funds that they might get. After the State Department asked for such plans, the U.N. last spring appointed a special commission to investigate further what was needed and where. During the year expectant financially-troubled countries applied to us for technical...
...months since it was first blueprinted, President Truman's Point Four program for developing backward nations has yet to get off the drawing boards. Last week, after a noisy debate, the House of Representatives finally voted $25 million as a start toward getting it under way (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...black financial magic by which governments raise or lower the value of their currencies amid incantations of economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...