Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these attributes stand out in bold relief in the description he gave of all Conservative opinion--which attacks "in the stupidly and dangerously prejudiced terms typical of the Conservative element wherever it exists...
...fourth leg, said the President, would be "a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available" to the world's "underdeveloped areas." It would make U.S. technical skills available, and would assist local capital with U.S. investments. It was not "the old imperialism-exploitation for foreign profit. It must be a world-wide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty and freedom...
...President's "bold new program" (see col. I) caught nearly everyone by surprise. Pravda's first reaction was a noncommittal two paragraphs on the inaugural; Henry Wallace called the whole speech almost "a declaration of war." Most foreign observers were delighted; most U.S. Congressmen were confused...
Actually there seemed to be no solid answers to any of these questions. Truman hadn't drawn up any detailed blueprints for his "bold new program," or estimated the costs. Explained a White House adviser "The President was merely convinced that the idea was sound, just as President Roosevelt, before detailed plans were prepared, was convinced that we could produce 50,000 tanks and 60 million jobs." In other words, it was more than a feeler, but not yet a program...
Economy-minded old Benjamin Franklin had argued at the Constitutional Convention against paying U.S. Presidents anything but their expenses. Combine power and profit in the presidency, warned Franklin, and the nation would get not the best men for the job, but the most avaricious, "the bold and the violent." Franklin was overruled: George Washington got $25,000 and a rent-free mansion...