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...cities. In Detroit's Cadillac Square he found a tremendous turnout. The C.I.O. and the A.F.L. had worked together to make a show of labor's numbers. Upwards of 100,000 people packed the open plaza and converging streets around City Hall. Harry Truman gave them a blunt and truculent speech on the theme that only he and the Democratic Party had the welfare of the "little man" at heart. Said...
...those who interposed a "yes, but-" was Britain's Cripps. Cripps objected that changes must come slowly. Hoffman was blunt. Said he grimly: "I told them they'd have to hang together or they would hang separately...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...
...Democrats' last anguished wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment" of any further moves on his behalf. He said what he might have said months ago; "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." That, finally, ended...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews (TIME...