Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...
...York City's teeming Borough of The Bronx. He is a graduate cum laude of the seamy school of politics. But no seams show on Edward J. Flynn. At 48 he is trimly built, iron-grey, dresses even more splendidly than Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Blackest spot that Boss-Buster Tom Dewey could find on Ed Flynn was the fact that when he was Sheriff of The Bronx (1921-25) one of his deputies was Gangster Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer (who had much closer connections with Tammany's convicted Jimmy Hines). Last year Flynn learned...
Last week the world was made well aware that the storm-lashed British Empire had a man of valor at her helm. In Britain's blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week...