Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your story "Mahout" [TIME, Feb. 14] infuriated me. . . . I mean no reflection on TIME'S reporting of the facts-for facts they are-but rather an anger at the inference . . . that the average American is confused and hasn't the faintest idea of what he wants in a new national Administration. That is not true...
Republicans, working Harlem with success for the first time in years, heard better explanations. What had the hamstrung Fair Employment Practices Commission really done for the Negro worker? How fair a break were Negroes getting in the Armed Services? Republicans heard of many a Negro serviceman returning in anger to Harlem, there to spread dissatisfaction. Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts. The Negroes who helped elect a Republican Governor last November in Kentucky...
...again. We cannot plan to exterminate a nation without ourselves stooping to the level of the beast. . . . We face an unbelievable horror. If rage shakes us let us take care that it is not futile. We who stay at home cannot take it out in direct action. . . . Let this anger be expressed in work, in sacrifice, in gratitude and in honor toward those who bear the burden. This is how we can beat Japan. This is how we can destroy the beast...
...fails to reveal much promise that he is a potential giant in U.S. history. The Warren utterances and speeches have never risen above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer and longer shadow across the land...
After Vice Admiral Ingram's pointed remarks in Montevideo, the result was a crashing anticlimax. A prevalent guess in Washington: Argentina's Government had already heard enough, was about to break relations with the Axis, and Mr. Roosevelt did not want to anger its Government at a critical moment. If not, the U.S. had suffered a dismal setback...