Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitably diminished the frankness of the give & take (and though the President himself became increasingly impatient with these insatiably curious guests he had invited to ask him questions), the Rooseveltian press conference at its best was a needed girder in the U.S. democratic structure; it was, like its British counterpart, the Prime Minister's question period in the House of Commons, a chance for the people to ask questions of their Executive. This was a Roosevelt reform whose value newspapers of all political colors were agreed upon - and one they would fight to perpetuate...
...Twisted Tail. The roaring was begun by the London Economist, a formidably good-mannered weekly which has no U.S. counterpart but might be described as a cross between the Wall Street Journal and a New Republic with muscles.* Along with most of the British press (notably excepting Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail), the Economist throughout the war has heeded official injunctions to go easy on America. Last week, just in time to be answered by President Roosevelt (see U.S. AT WAR), Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther shed his inhibitions and stepped out, blowing hard...
Double Budget. The closest U.S. counterpart of this plan is a bill published last month by Montana's lean, well-heeled Senator James E. Murray. Murray's bill, released frankly to stimulate discussion, calls for the President to submit to Congress along with his regular budget a National Production and Employment Budget. This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend...
During the week, U.S. correspondents who flocked to see Mr. Perkins' Mission puzzled over possible U.S. counterparts to the stage characters. The crude but levelheaded Mr. Perkins might well be a roughed-up composite of all the frankly capitalistic U.S. businessmen who have visited and charmed the Rusians: ex-U.S. Ambassador Joe Davies, the late Wendell Willkie, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place...
Like its U.S. counterpart, the C.I.O., the Canadian Congress of Labor organized a political action committee.* Last week, delegates to the annual C.C.L. convention found themselves neck-deep in politics. C.C.L.'s Quebec director, the convention's nominal host, was soon fed up with all the lobbying and argument. Said he: "When we invited you to come and have a convention in the city of Quebec, we had a labor convention in view. . . . This . . . has developed into a political convention...