Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor, already off on another tack, hoped that Davis would adopt a more liberal attitude than Vinson's in connection with "fringe" awards, i.e., increases for night-shift differentials, reclassifications, etc., which do not affect basic wage rates. This issue, now vital to the unions, was sizzling on Davis' desk before he had a chance to sit down...
...jolting defeat in Grey North's recent by-election (TIME, Feb. 12), the Prime Minister had seen how wartime emotionalism could affect judgments, and he did not want an election until the war was nearer its end, if he could help it. He wanted to fight his next campaign on the issues of Canada's part in world security and reconstruction at home...
...Cairo conference succeeded, it would put into effect the Alexandria resolution for unified educational, financial, commercial, legal and foreign policies by all Arab nations. It would change the balance of power in the Middle East, might affect Britain, France, Russia, the U.S. But there were difficult, immediate problems...
...press reaction was also favorable-save for the grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course of events." John Foster Dulles, internationalist lawyer and Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy adviser, praised the speech for divorcing the problem of controlling the Axis from the larger problem of keeping the peace...
...next alert you get is likely to be the McCoy. ... It might knock out a high building or two. It might create a fire hazard. It would certainly cause casualties ... It could not seriously affect the progress of the war. But think what it would mean to Dr. Goebbels...