Word: cons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together with Dr. Raymond Leslie Buell's address [TIME, Aug. 3], small against the background of X cards and pensions-for-Con-gress . . . still hearten those of us who see that we are steadily losing the Battle of Washington...
...default. The chance had come in 1940, but it had slipped by the boards, obscured by the rush of the war abroad. In that somber, critical campaign autumn the Third Term issue had been a great issue but not dominant. The campaign had been fought out over the pro & con of New Deal v. private initiative, of Roosevelt the man v. Willkie the man, of Roosevelt the veteran in foreign affairs v. Willkie the intelligent novice. The echoes of the 1940 debate were nearly forgotten. Forgotten, too, were the eloquent 1928 words of Great Liberal George Norris...
...Julian Richardson's article on the club system. Not only does he completely misunderstand or ignore the shortcomings of the system, but he likewise fails to utilize many of the strongest arguments in its favor. About an important local problem of which much could be said either pro or con, Richardson naively fails to say anything...
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...united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...