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...British Labor government of Clement Attlee (which Adenauer accuses of unfairly aiding his German Socialist opposition in the immediate postwar years) and at Socialist Party Leader Schumacher. Adenauer scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork for the "economic miracle," and he gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman...
Harvard Student Agencies representatives have been laying the groundwork for a $50,000 fund-raising drive to start a capital risk fund program, Dustin M. Burke '52, HSA board chairman, said yesterday...
...from the outset. When Rumanian Reds went to Moscow in 1920, he declared, Lenin's Comintern showed "ignorance of the situation in our country," but nonetheless insisted on dictating Rumanian party policy-"though this was the inalienable right of the party itself." That, according to Ceausescu, laid the groundwork for Moscow's sellout of the Rumanian Reds during the early days of World War II-through the expedient of the 1940 Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact...
Smith bowed finally to the demand that his group go back to Mississippi and lay the proper groundwork for an agency grant. For, while the capital camp-in smacked of a Gogol comedy, the plight of the Delta Negroes, evicted from their sharecroppers' homes after they struck cotton plantations last year, was indeed tragic-and hardly likely to improve without federal help...
Appled Mathematics concentration grew out of the need for people who would be primarily the "users of mathematics;" people who must have a solid groundwork in theory, but whose primary consideration is using mathematics as a tool for solving mostly practical problems in engineering, physical sciences, economics, computer sciences, social sciences and operations research...