Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy and British imperialists, who were "whipping up a holy war" against communism. The pact, Wallace said, would turn Russia "into a wild and desperate cornered beast...
Secret Servicemen clustered about a big mansion on Washington's ornate Embassy Row one night last week like drones attending the queen bee. Inside, in the rococo, tapestry-hung ballroom of Anderson House, the President of the United States sat beaming before a heap of ten-cent-store toys and a big pink and gold cake topped by three candles. He puffed once and blew them out. The 70-odd guests-the Cabinet, some of the Supreme Court, the White House guard and their wives-applauded happily. House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposed a toast (in domestic champagne...
Tenants and landlords disguised their happiness well. Some tenants and labor groups quickly condemned the formula, but most weren't sure how the plan would affect them. The vocal, well-organized real-estate groups yelped in noisy pain. "It's a phony and a fraud," cried one big Boston apartment owner. Landlords claimed that Woods's formula was based on false mathematics, took no account of the value of their property. According to many landlords, they would be collecting only 2 to 3% on the "fair value" of their properties even if they could wangle an increase...
...landlords played safe anyway. The morning after Woods's announcement they stormed housing offices for application forms, had nearly cleaned out some big city offices before the end of the day. By week's end 500,000 blanks were passed out and thousands of landlords had begun staking claims for more rent money...
...teaching and the advocating? The Government had put the finger on a number of small fry as the actual instructors. On the basis of the evidence so far, only a few of the eleven big fish on trial had actually labored in this vineyard. What the Government was trying to prove, however, was that all of the eleven, who comprised the U.S. Politburo, set the line, gave the orders, and made very sure that a far from innocent thing was being carried...