Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat. In another Congressional committee room, David Lilienthal, the President's choice for chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, faced his old enemy Senator "Kenneth McKellar, who tried to prove that Lilienthal, if not a Red, loved Reds. Hour after hour, day after day, McKellar tormented him with questions and charges, until finally, acknowledging that he did not carry the answer to some statistical question in his head, Lilienthal said...
...congressional investigators achieved nothing else, they were dramatizing one fact: a man can be a Communist, or a "totalitarian liberal" and call himself a good American-but he cannot expect his fellow Americans to agree. All Americans could heartily echo David Lilienthal's "great belief in civil liberties." But if they believed in democracy and Soviet Russia too, as Henry Wallace did, then it was time they had their heads examined-or their hearts...
...There, the CCF freely admits, its influence is negligible. The party now has about 70,000 dues-paying members ($5 a year on the average). About 70,000 more voters are members by virtue of membership in CCF-affiliated unions. A two-year organization drive, sparked by National Secretary David Lewis, now aims at more than 100,000 paid-up members and two million votes by 1949. The CCF hopes to become Canada's No. 2 party in the next general election...
...sprint events, however, Columbia offers Paul Beduy and David St. John, who has just returned from service. St. John will enter the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events, and stacks up as the best man on the Columbia roster. He may have his hands full with Carl Busby, whose sprinting speed contributed to a Crimson victory over West Point last week...
...cast actually manages to seem Scottish. From David Brooks, who sang "Evalina" in "Bloomer Girl," through Lidija Franklin and Virginia Bosler, two talented dancers in the best DeMille tradition, down to all the various people who hang around in the mob scenes, the show smacks of authenticity, an effect which is boosted by David Ffolkes' costumes. It is, in fact, this quality that is the show's outstanding virtue. It's a sort of "Okla homa!" set in Scotland...