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...many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe is somewhat lightened by the discovery that we are in rather distinguished company . . . Senator Elbert Thomas [and] Senator Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Devil of a Job | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Rooseveltian swings to the right would be fought loudly and bitterly by men who are normally his most loyal wish-followers in Congress. These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back was the man the C.I.O. has picked as a potential leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Thunder on the Left | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Half-Free, Half-Open | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Seven out of every too veterans will want some kind of education. That prediction was made last week by Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas at the 25th birthday party of Manhattan's New School for Social Research (TIME, Oct. 4). One problem : many veterans have already had some higher education but, unless special plans are made for them, will be unable to go on to a degree. The New School announced one kind of help: a senior college in which veterans, with underclass credits, can get A.B.s through evening courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Veterans | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Elbert Noel Beeler, of Hillsboro, Ill.: "Fresh milk and the morning paper at the front door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: So Nice to Come Home to | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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