Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provisions banning political activity by unions and corporations: "a dangerous intrusion on free speech." Requirement that all union officers sign an affidavit that they were not Communists: "disruptive." In short, there was not a single thing about it that Harry Truman would admit that he liked...
...wrestled, India and Indian politics changed along the road. The Indian National Congress, which claimed to represent Indians of every religious community, finally had to admit that Mohamed Ali Jinnah spoke for the Moslems. Left-wing groups left the Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
...great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...
...found, through a . . . career such as Mr. Wasserman's seems to have been, that only nearsighted men would go for me, I'm sure I'd be the last to admit it in public...
Next day the All-India Committee of the Congress Party got together and unanimously resolved that it "cannot admit the right of any state of India to declare its independence and to live in isolation from the rest of India...