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...Wagner Act, Pittsburgh and the smoke-curtained western steel counties around it have become a Democratic stronghold. Philadelphia now has a Democratic city administration for the first time since 1884, is still in the emotional throes of revolt against decades of tobacco-stained Republican boss rule, and is awash with independent-minded voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: KEY STATE-PENNSYLVANIA | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...House Veterans Committee is currently awash with over thirty bills to extend government-sponsored educational opportunities to Korean veterans. Out of all this verbiage have appeared three different approaches to the problem of a new G.I. Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second-rate | 3/20/1952 | See Source »

Turmoil to Carlsen: "Your hatches are awash and may give way at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Duty | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...greatest triumph, his leadership had been decisively dismissed. Grateful for victory, but nursing prewar grievances against the Tories and the upper classes, a majority of the British turned away from Churchill to the brave new world of Socialism. Now that world, so hopefully launched, was waterlogged and awash. But grievances and memories die hard in class-torn Britain. Churchill, trying for office last year, was narrowly defeated. Last week he was narrowly victorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...greatest intelligence expert." His first unblushing bid for the title was Secret Missions (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a postwar expose of U.S. naval intelligence in which it didn't take much reading between the lines to guess that Intelligence Officer Zacharias had been a live brain awash among saltwater boneheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Stalin, Meet Mr. Truman | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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