Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides, the risk was appalling. And yet last week all the signs, all the hints which broke the fetters of censorship, seemed to suggest that the risks might be hazarded. Without either side wanting it, the battle seemed on its way to jointure...
...plus an additional representative for every 5,000,000 inhabitants. (The U. S. would have 27 votes, the remainder 22.) Until direct elections of intercontinental congressmen could be arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations. (Streit suggests Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, James M. Cox, asks readers to suggest other names.) This Union would be empowered to handle foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could...
...armed forces, there are two chief services, the Army and the Navy. To suggest that there might or should be a third-a separate air force-is a private blasphemy rarely hazarded in public...
There were reports that Carol and Magda had received offers of asylum from Cuba, where it was figured he and Magda would be tourist drawing cards, and from Germany. Herr Hitler was said to suggest that Carol and his Jewish mistress reside not in the Reich proper but in Belgium or Holland. Meanwhile much of Carol's fortune is already banked in Manhattan, and most friends of the couple expect them to turn up sooner or later in its cafe society...
...that the Fellows of Harvard College would wish to discourage contact between the University and the community. Several organizations with widely different political positions, and at least one non-political group, are interested in sponsoring radio addresses by both members of the Harvard staff and by eminent outsiders. I suggest that these organizations make their position clear to the University authorities. I also recommend the matter to the attention of the Student Council, and urge that they take action as soon as possible. Paul C. Hoover, Advisory Council, Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention...