Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only way to win elections year after year is to know what the voters want and give it to them...
...without censorship. Some ducked out of the tours, tried to dodge security police who trailed them, but even when they succeeded were wary of talking to Hungarians, who would suffer reprisals from the police if they were caught speaking to Westerners. New York Times Correspondent Cy Sulzberger filed a candid impression of the country: "Millions of intelligent beings living within the Soviet bloc have been . . . mesmerized by their monolithic propaganda machine . . . The average political leader . . . pretends to regard our statements ... as what the Russians call Klyukva ... in connotation . . . 'boloney.' 'Boloney' to date is regrettably what...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...
...rousing rhymes in the schoolbooks, and is long apt to be so. If his preferred friends on two continents were unfailingly genteel-and apt, like himself, to deplore "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought not to be tolerated"-he has written, in Two Worlds jor Memory, a candid and gossipy account life & letters on the old Right Bank...
...before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, the Institute announced that it intended to retain them on the faculty. The statement by President James R. Killian Jr. and Karl Compton, chairman of the Corporation, read in party, "Because of our confidence in them, as well as the candid manner in which they have reported on their past associations, we find no cause to change their status at the Institute...