Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another indication of the President's waning popularity came in a poll taken between the acts of the Pulitzer Prize-winning State of the Union in Manhattan, Chicago and San Francisco. Asked their presidential choice in 1948, the playgoers gave Harry Truman only 88 of 6,191 votes cast. (Thanks to gallery popularity, Henry Wallace led with...
...November elections pose an unpleasant question for the American Liberal--how to cast his vote where it will do the least harm to the Progressive movement. Republican campaign hoopla features undisguised "Back to Normalcy"; while the Democratic administration, which for 12 years carried the battle flag of Liberalism, is generaled by leaders whose political philosophy is almost indistinguishable from "Silent Cal" Republicanism. Neither party offers a constructive, integrated program for social or economic progress; and the strategy of both emphasizes catchy slogans at the expense of troublesome ideology...
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who is a stickler for accuracy and integrity, was in an unwanted public row last week. His opponent was ex-Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace. The row was vital: it brought U.S. atomic policy into sharp debate, and it cast some highly interesting light on the character of Henry Wallace...
Meanwhile, in the Russian zone of Austria, Chief Editor Ferdinand Rieffler, of the People's Press, was convicted not for anything he had written but for something he had merely heard. At a public meeting a speaker cast a slur upon the Soviet Army. Rieffler failed to rise and voice an objection to the slur. His silence was held a crime to be expiated by four to ten years in Siberia...
Heavy Commuter voting demonstrated its effectiveness in the Student Council elections yesterdays as two Dudley Seniors finished with the four Seniors and two Juniors receiving the highest number of tallies on the 1400-plus ballots cast...