Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Robert A. Taft thinks that if Congressmen look a little silly during "investigations" such as the current one concerning Hollywood's subversives it is only because "a bunch of Communists out for trouble can make anyone look undignified...
...American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts out to be a bunch of hypocrites. [But] Senator Taft was on a political speaking tour. . . . Meals . . . had been prepared far in advance . . . and it was not for him to dictate to his hosts what [to serve]. . . . It's an ancient trick to smear a man by the use of such backhanded tricks...
...next morning the photographer got up at four to take pictures of a bunch of the outing club boys going to fight fires. This we did to show that NAPS doesn't nap. Later we made an appointment to see a Dean, but we never kept...
...Said, 'Howdy.' " At 21, summer-vacationing in Switzerland, he reported on a party: "I walked up to the best-looking dame in the bunch & said 'howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...
...Russian show, with its 15-foot statue of Stalin-a bunch of fresh red roses at his feet-was only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp...