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...small nations, led by Belgium, wanted to make it read "solely within the juris diction." John Foster Dulles won the day for the U.S. view by pointing out that almost no economic matter was "solely" within a single nation's purview...
March toward Power. The Communists marching down the China coast were not merely racing Chungking's new U.S.-trained army for possession of Shanghai. They were heading straight into the purview of U.S. Far Eastern policy. Their plan was to move in as the Japs moved out, to make themselves indispensable to the U.S. armies, to win U.S. military recognition and thereby take a long step in their bid for power in China. Should such a situation arise, the U.S. would face a momentous political decision...
...Thus he was able to recite a record of wrangling and over lapping of effort which, he said, had cost the nation millions of dollars, millions of wasted man-hours, had possibly endangered American lives. Some of the "countless instances" which have come within the Truman Committee's purview...
...friend. But he made enemies among U.S. colleagues who did not enjoy the same prestige. Some of them wanted Faymonville to see U.S. Lend-Lease as a bargaining weapon to pry out Russia's suspiciously guarded military secrets. Faymonville said that this was beyond his purview...
...branch of the C. I. O. hosiery workers' union in Philadelphia, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the status of unions under the Sherman Act. Essence of the decision: strikes (including sitdowns), organizational drives, other normal union activities are not within the act's purview. But unions "are to some extent and in some circumstances subject to the act" (i.e., when price control, other trade restraints are primary purposes rather than incidental effects...