Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strikes gnawed bigger bites than ever before in the U.S. economy without increasing the power of the unions or the living standards of the workers. Most dramatic was the rail strike in May, which collapsed when Harry Truman threw the full weight of his presidential office at two men-whom few had heard of before and fewer have heard of since...
...with the details of the satellite treaties, he managed to get over to the Russians and the world that the U.S. had planted the weight of its power in the path of the Russian advance. What Jimmy said about Trieste and freedom of the Danube had its effect on bigger issues, such as the Russian bid for control of Germany and the Dardanelles. Tinker Jimmy's dam was a jerry-built improvisation-but, for the moment, it held. The U.S. and the world looking back on 1946 might well and gratefully remember Jimmy Byrnes when many a bigger...
...Bigger & Better. On the whole, Jimmy had done well; he had found that the way to get along with the Russians in international conferences was to state U.S. principles and policies clearly, and to stick to them; the Russians respected that. But the rivalry between the U.S. and Russia was not confined to the council table. It existed more importantly in the real world of men & women for whose allegiance the two social systems bid against one another...
...Latin America. On its solution depended not only the U.S. world position, but also the lasting peace which the world sought so feverishly in 1946. That job was one for future years; if Tinker Jimmy's dam held long enough, the U.S. would seek in better years bigger men than Jimmy for a bigger task...
Forgotten Man. "At first it wasn't so bad'" says Brougham, "because Hearst forgot he had a Seattle paper. I threw his editorials on the floor and ran local stuff. . . ." In 1929 Hearst remembered, and Brougham went back to sports-but at a bigger salary than his successor...