Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ulster-Irish Society of New York awarded Eleanor Roosevelt its medal- restricted to Orangemen and their descendants* -"for notable service to the American nation...
Last week in Brussels, Ernest Bevin's dream of Western Union was taking on some hard outlines of reality. Delegates to a five-nation meeting (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg) moved rapidly toward a defensive alliance against Russia. By mid-March, the delegates' work would be presented to their Foreign Ministers who were expected to sign an "umbrella treaty," to keep Western Europe out of the Red rain. The Czech crisis had speeded up the fusion of Europe's democratic forces...
...very well to say that Mark Hopkins could teach on the end of a log: his subject was moral philosophy. His brother Albert, who was a scientist, needed a laboratory. In the century since the Hopkins brothers, education has rolled off the log and become one of the nation's biggest industries; though it has spent millions on its factories it needs two billion dollars more. Where will the money come from...
...behind the winning coaches is shrewd, 49-year-old Fritz Crisler, who as Michigan's athletic director bosses all university sports, besides coaching football. He had already done his share for Michigan this season by turning out the nation's No. I football team...
...press abhors the very idea of censorship, except where the nation's security is plainly involved. So does Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended with the war,* but the need for keeping military secrets did not. Last week Forrestal called in 22 press, radio and newsreel representatives to talk over ways to keep them...