Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without one direct word of criticism of Tom Dewey, Harold Stassen made it clear that he thought Dewey had missed the boat by not "talking the issues through to the people." The election, said Stassen, thus was not really a defeat of a "liberal Republican program," because such a program had never really been presented to the people. The Stassen formula: "We need to rebuild the party from the people on up . . .to present a warm and humanitarian approach to the people...
...differences with Churchill were continuous and lasted until the end of the war. At first they arose over Churchill's coolness toward the cross-Channel invasion. Eisenhower, in fact, said that Churchill feared the bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
...battle on the Champs Elysees reached its worst phase just before nightfall. A gang of Communists surrounded a police car, tried to set fire to it. The gardes started shooting. Some fired in the air, but one or two shot blindly into the fog. By direct hit or ricochet, four men were wounded. Panic seized the Communists and they fled...
...gross of $800,000 every month and net of $268,746 so far this year. It has also given Transocean a black mark with the Civil Aeronautics Board. CAB thinks that Transocean has stepped up its domestic and transatlantic flights to a point where it is in direct passenger competition with the hard-pressed scheduled lines. CAB will shortly hold hearings to see if Transocean should reduce its services...
There are at least two better solutions to Reynolds' difficulties. First, the vice-President could hire a direct assistant, such as Associate Dean Watson is to Bender, and put him in charge of handling all student investigations. Second, student investigators might be allowed all the freedom they now have to interview administrative officials, but be refused permission to make public the resultant statements until they had obtained the viewpoint of the Dean's Office...