Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corporal Edward George Wilkin, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who died in action three years ago in Germany. His body had been brought home at last for reburial on Memorial Day. Standing beside the funeral caisson, General Bradley spoke a few quiet words of tribute. Then, to a nation which often before has forgotten its history, he delivered a reminder and warning...
Passer, a 1943 summa cum laude who received an A.M. in Economics today, spoke on what he termed "the new dollar diplomacy which uses our financial resources to promote world peace.... America, the strongest nation, must accept the major responsibility for establishing a lasting peace," he declared...
...this never-ending struggle to make the jammed, misshapen city run, many of its critics wondered if it were an outmoded mechanism-or an incurable growth. It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences-its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe. All had declined in importance. Was New York going downhill? To Bill O'Dwyer-and to millions of his fellow citizens-the mere suggestion would be blasphemy...
They were not nonsense: there was evident logic behind them. Even in his prewar and wartime effulgence, Hirohito was not worshiped as a personal god but as a symbol of the nation. Any other man (with a claim to descent from the sun goddess) would have served the purpose as well. But now, Hirohito is tarnished by his association with the malefactors who made the war and lost it. Hirohito's involvement will be highlighted shortly when Tojo and other top criminals receive their sentences...
...newspapers. General Manager David E. Smucker was made to say: "The newspapers will have to pay for the funny features which the Long Island has hitherto supplied them without cost. A ... test in the Middle West revealed that 89% of the readers rated the Long Island the nation's leading comic institution...