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the demise of Northern Securities meant a severe backpedaling in the extent to which Hill’s three lines could now be managed in a shared community of interest—they could not be truly or meaningfully unified at all.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
Avec l’école de Fribourg de Walter Eucken et Franz Böhm, ils ont contribué à définir les fondements de la position néolibérale allemande. Müller-Armack est devenu professeur à l’université de Cologne en 1950 et il a pris en 1952 la tête du service chargé des politiques au sein du ministère de l’Économie d’Erhard.
Quinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
The Navy that Daniels and Roosevelt took charge of in 1913 had mastered the transition to modern weaponry but was hobbled by an administrative structure substantially unchanged since 1842.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
turned to American motion pictures
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
En fait, le congrès de Montreux débouche également sur un modèle d’accord bilatéral inspiré de ceux de l’entre-deux-guerres116. Heilperin lui-même annonce l’échec de « “l’approche universaliste” concernant les problèmes de redressement de l’économie mondiale à ses niveaux d’antan117 ». Dans la deuxième édition de son livre de 1947, The Trade of
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By late October, as the French and British offensives to the west continued to succeed, Pershing and his staff began to recognize that Foch’s strategy to end the war in 1918 might actually work. Acutely aware of the AEF’s poor showing—and that jockeying among the Allies for postwar influence had begun—Pershing dispatched Fox Conner to meet the
... See moreSteven Rabalais • General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor (The Generals Book 3)
Locke’s political philosophy was, on the whole, adequate and useful until the industrial revolution. Since then, it has been increasingly unable to tackle the important problems. The power of property, as embodied in vast corporations, grew beyond anything imagined by Locke.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
On July 24, less than a month after the North Korean invasion, Joy tasked Rear Admiral James Doyle, the commander of Amphibious Group One, to order his Marine Corps cadre in Mobile Training Team Able (MTTA) to stop training US Army soldiers in vehicle waterproofing, landing craft embarkation, and all the skills necessary to execute another D-Day,
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
To Lyndon Johnson, S.J. Res. 1 was, as he said to Bobby Baker, “the worst bill I can think of,” for reasons that included not only the political (it was, after all, a slap at Democratic presidents, and its passage would be a major Republican victory) but the philosophical (if there was a single tenet he held consistently throughout his political
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