Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needle-nosed Harry Bridges hurried to Murray's hotel suite. There, while Murray and members of his staff listened, Bridges blandly argued that he had never followed the Communist line; he had only done what seemed best for his longshoremen. C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey, 37, unable to contain himself, yelled: "You're a goddam liar, Bridges." A few minutes later, Harry put on his hat and left...
Post-Operative Effects. This week, the operation began. Phil Murray faced 600 delegates (representing 4,500,000 workers in 40 C.I.O. unions) and grimly explained why the job had to be done. "The Communist program for American labor is a program of destruction," he said. The leaders of a small percentage of the C.I.O., men pledged to "harassment, opposition and obstructionism," subscribe to that program. "They reject our basic policies; they flout the wishes of the majority. No self-respecting organization can long tolerate this dangerous division . . . The majority has the inherent right to protect its course of action...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
...York City, which enjoys a good show, was having a pleasantly lively time in the mayoralty campaign. Neither greying, genial Democratic Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...
...head of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire (the French branch of Europe's Christian democrats). At midnight, with his cabinet posts already assigned and the Radical and Socialist parties satisfied, Bidault went before the Assembly and won a cushiony vote of confidence, 367 to 183. Every non-Communist deputy except one voted for Bidault; yet there were many who, with deep misgivings about the prospects of his regime, voted for him because they could not stand the floundering any longer...