Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor leaders also had finally realized that price controls had failed, that wage stabilization was dead. Said one last week: "They're all dead. I hate to take a defeatist attitude but there is no other course open. All governmental control over fundamental economic forces must be dropped...
...Collier's, ex-Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins gave a glimpse into the Roosevelt political mind: "I have often been asked what Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...
...homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...
...system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...
TIME and the world generally seem to have tacitly accepted the abbreviation UNO . . . definitely negative and defeatist. In other words-United...