Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cold Comfort. Unions have grown from 3,000,000 to 9,000,000 members under the New Deal. But because of the feud, unions face assaults on their social and economic rights, emasculation of the Wagner Act, "political castration," loss of the ability to strike. Government control of their internal affairs. Although some employers still fight them ("Any employer who fights the growth and functioning of a bona fide unionism, either in his own company or elsewhere, is a saboteur of American business enterprise . . . more subversive than any red"), business cannot be blamed for labor's danger; the split...
...good two-thirds of young Tarheels attend church (majority: Baptist) at least once a week. But to many the church fails to bring comfort. Said an unhappy little girl: "I feel the Lord want me to do something and I don't know what...
...wish to imply that Republican leaders are willfully or consciously giving aid and comfort to Hitler. But I want to emphasize that replacement of Roosevelt, even if it were by the most patriotic leadership that could be found, would cause Hitler to rejoice. I do not believe that the American people will turn their backs on the man that Hitler wants to see defeated. Most Republicans may not yet realize it, but their party is the party of appeasement in the United States today. It is the rarty which the totalitarian powers will back in every way possible...
...Leon Trotsky was a successful author with an adoring wife, a house in the suburbs and enough money to live in smug comfort. A lifetime devoted to the destruction of the middle class had made him one of its members...
...Sternly rebuked was Ambassador John Cudahy, for suggesting that Great Britain relax her blockade, let the U. S. feed Hitler's Europe (see col. 3). Less pointed, but clear, was the rebuke administered to Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt, who returned last month with words of comfort for the tottery Pétain regime (see p. 27). Mr. Roosevelt's trusted Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau last week indicated that Hitler's France can expect no comfort from the U. S. More for emphasis than as a practical consideration, Mr. Morgenthau went...