Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue was as clear cut as any Republican could wish. It was the Fair Deal and its welfare state. The Republicans' John Foster Dulles did not say "yes, but-" or hint he could do it better; he declared bluntly that the Fair Deal was "statism," and he was against it. The Democrats' Herbert Lehman accepted the challenge headon: "If I go to Washington, I will work for a welfare state...
LABOR It'd Better Be Good...
After 2½ years in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus (where he spent his spare time studying law), Yankey decided he could do better, asked for a second jury trial on a technicality: since he had been sentenced without a jury conviction, he was entitled to be sentenced by a three-judge panel. He won a new trial. Last week, the same crime brought 41-year-old Cecil Yankey a second verdict. Said a Highland County murder jury: "Guilty" -with no recommendation of mercy...
...were increasingly disrupted by civil war. Recently, the airlines' main job has been retreat: month after month, they flew harried Nationalist ministers from city to city in flight from advancing Reds. Last week, in one of the slickest coups of the civil war, the Communists grabbed the better part of the Nationalist-owned airlines...
...Paris this week, after both Gaullists and the M.R.P. had denied the story, Charles de Gaulle'held a press conference. He called for electoral reforms, proposed a Europe-wide referendum on a European union, attacked the Western foreign ministers for not doing a better job of bringing about a French-German understanding (see INTERNATIONAL). When a newsman asked him about L'Epoque's story, De Gaulle said noncommittally: "I don't sign any protocols; I invite all Frenchmen, regardless of rank and creed, to rally around me in the best interests of the nation...