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FACT BOX.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)
ON THIS DAY
In 1943, meats, fats and cheese were added to the list of U.S. consumer items to be purchased only with stamps in ration books. A month earlier, canned goods joined shoes, coffee and sugar on the list. A week later, President Roosevelt froze prices, wages and salaries to control inflation.
In 1980, with OPEC countries continuing to jack up the price of crude, a "windfall profit tax" was imposed on the U.S. oil industry.
In 1989, an editorial in The New York Times declared the Cold War over.
In 1997, Gen. Wesley Clark, who helped broker the 1995 peace accord in Bosnia, was President Clinton's choice for ...
- Revolution against revolution. (reform movements in Soviet Union and Eastern...
- Magazine article from: National Review Bailey, George Crozier, Brian October 14, 1988 700+ words
...are spreading to Moscow FIFTY YEARS AGO, on September 29, 1938, in the Fuhrer Haus (since demolished) in Munich, the British prime minister and French premier, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier, acquiesced to Adolf Hitler's demand that Czechoslovakia...
- Hitler's Desk Set Used in Munich Pact to Be Auctioned September 30.
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 29, 2008 700+ words
...control of Czechoslovakia over to Germany. This dubious "Munich Pact" included no Czech representative. It was signed by prime...interviews with McConn, as well as actual footage from the Munich Pact signing showing the desk set can also be found on the website...
- Munich Pact (or Agreement)
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Munich Pact (or Agreement) a pact signed in 1938 at Munich by Great Britain and France, ceding the Czech Sudetenland to Nazi Germany: regarded...
- No more Munichs! What the media won't tell. (German industry and the Munich...
- Magazine article from: Monthly Review Ben-Villada, Gene H. April 1, 1988 700+ words
...diplomatic historians. What will concern us here, however, is the larger and long-ignored ideological setting of the Munich Pact. And in order to deal with that setting, two fundamental and interrelated facts must be plainly stated at the outset...
- Lord Home Dies at 92; British Prime Minister
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard Pearson October 10, 1995 700+ words
...parliamentary secretary to the secretary of state for Scotland. A Chamberlain ally in the 1930s, Lord Home maintained that the Munich pact that agreed to Hitler's partition of Czechoslovakia bought Britain time it needed to prepare for war. Fifty years after...
- The revival of Munich.(TRAVEL 2)
- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) Frank, Ben G. January 12, 2007 700+ words
...Nazi movement. In 1923, it was the scene of Hitler's Beer Hall putsch. And in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Hitler at the Fuhrer Ban (headquarters). The city thus became synonymous with appeasement...
- For Jews anxious about Iran, a biblical tale loses its charm: For Jews anxious...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 30, 2007 700+ words
...effective clause of any such deal wouldn't be put on paper, just as it wasn't in 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said of the Munich pact, "I believe it is peace for our time." He didn't say, "What right does Czechoslovakia...
- Czech plans to erect plaque draw sharp protest from WJC
- News wire article from: Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mitchell Danow April 5, 1995 700+ words
...1938, less than two months after Hitler's troops occupied the Sudentenland as a result of the Munich Pact signed by Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Four months after his election, Hacha signed the protocols allowing...
