Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun with one of the greatest disadvantages that ever faced a Presidential candidate: he was running against the Commander in Chief in wartime. This fact precluded a slashing, all-out attack on the President. Shortly after his nomination a FORTUNE poll showed that 66% of the voters were certain Tom Dewey would lose...
...repeated and expanded on the attack he had begun in Chicago (that the Roosevelt Administration is old, tired, quarrelsome and defeatist); and opened a new salient by stating the simple fact that in 1940, after seven Roosevelt years, there were still 10,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. He named this the "Roosevelt Depression"-and for the first time the New Dealers were really on the defensive...
Another neat piece of Dewey's campaign strategy also became apparent. In the August doldrums, while he was silent, other Republicans had begun moving up the artillery on a weak Democratic flank-the left-wing support for Franklin Roosevelt from P.A.C. and the Communists. Tom Dewey marched ahead without so much as glancing at this temptingly vulnerable spot-until Franklin Roosevelt, needled by the jabs from Republican underlings, rose to disclaim his Communist support. Then, at Charleston, W.Va., Dewey let go hard against the President's "soft" disavowal. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt doesn't like the Communists, said...
Adding Up. Meanwhile, the great foray of the Third Fleet became the thundering climax of an air campaign that by all signs added up to a preparation for Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines. It had begun weeks ago with a series of far-flung operations, seemingly unrelated...
...battle to smash through the Siegfried Line to the Rhine had begun. This week General "Ike" Eisenhower's top heavyweight-the biggest and most powerful of his armies in Europe-still slugged forward in the heaviest part of the job. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army pounded unremittingly at the crouching enemy, in a tremendous burst of infighting against the Germans' main forces in the West Wall, trying for a knockout before winter...