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...than the usual string of adjectives; he was prepared to give the delegates his idea of what the Democratic Party should be. Whether conservatives squirmed, or Southerners saw red, or New Dealers cheered, Henry Wallace's speech was the first that riveted the delegates' attention. It was blunt, brave, tactless. It easily explained why Henry Wallace was the best-loved and best-hated man in the Stadium. Southerners got a heaping dose of brine in their open wounds as Henry Wallace, no longer ill at ease, rubbed in the word "liberal" eleven times in his brief platform appearance...
...Sunday columnist for the liberal-minded Atlanta Constitution wrote, in a blunt editorial which may have made many a white Southerner uncomfortable: "We cannot much longer continue to subject Negroes to 'taxation without representation' or draft them to jeopardize their lives in defense of a democracy which denies them the right of franchise...
...TIME-by-Air's third birthday, we put this blunt question to all the American ambassadors and consuls south of the Rio Grande, to the presidents and foreign ministers of the 20 Latin American republics -and to quite a large group of the most important American businessmen in the countries with which U.S. commercial ties seem strongest...
...terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect and unprotected. As, one by one, he gestures his men forward, he is almost smiling...
...Senator was equally blunt in opposing any plan that called for complete Government supervision of the cutback to civilian production. He wants surpluses of materials made available to all manufacturers who have no unfilled war contracts and are not located in a critical manpower area. Said he: "The experience of the past does not indicate that Government agencies, staffed with dollar-a-year men from industry, have either the experience or the ability to select from tens of thousands of manufacturers those who are to be permitted to produce, and from thousands of items, those which are to be produced...