Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweeping strictures if he had also stated that on two occasions in that book I indicated that I sometimes find TIME anything but adequate in its treatment of fact, that I cited explicitly, as one of the enemies of international understanding, "the phony standardized picture" it gives of both America and Europe. He would have written a review more in accordance with TIME'S professed intention to report accurately if he had even mentioned that my book is not primarily what he calls an "excursion" into world politics, but rather an essay on "the necessity for Americans and Europeans...
...that he might use the occasion to discuss possible changes in the Taft-Hartley law. But with victory in the air, why should he make any more promises? "Labor has its special problems," said Dewey. "But these problems have not been solved . . . by separating labor from the rest of America." He reminded labor that Republicans had voted for the Wagner Act, voted against Harry Truman's plan to draft the railroad strikers, that both parties had supported the Taft-Hartley...
...position. His principles are elastic and he is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge on any subject and he is a malignant, scheming sort of an individual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Workers, but dangerous to the United States of America...
...about Europe for the past 15 years, can tell Americans much of the new loves and new hates of the 1948 continental. Peace depends in part on enlightened leadership in Europe, and United States universities can help displaced persons to support such leadership. But peace also depends on an America which has evolved beyond the dark ages of its own aloofness. Here is where the visiting DP could pay us back...
Police officials from the U.S., Canada, and South America are expected to attend the conference of the international Association of Chiefs of Police meeting. The conference is the largest of its kind in America...