Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's rampaging Senatorial Candidate Pat Hurley, who is in a tooth & nail fight with ex-Agriculture Secretary Clint Anderson, had already explained to Warren why he could not follow the Warren line. "Pat," Warren had urged, "don't fight 'em, unify 'em." Replied Hurley: "Governor, I've got to fight 'em. Clint Anderson's got me out-unified...
...does an unprincipled politician get along in a Communist-dominated country? Should he join 'em or fight 'em? Poland's Edward Osubka-Morawski tried it both ways, lost both times. The Communists made him Premier of Poland and last week they forced him out of Polish politics. His is the case history of an opportunist...
...even such an apparently foregone result did not mean that the campaign was going to go by default. President Harry Truman, who never says die, had roared out of Washington promising to "give 'em hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with...
Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...carnation in her husband's buttonhole and the farmers grinned appreciatively, Harry Truman arrayed himself on a platform on a little knoll. He was delighted with the speech which Clark Clifford had written for him. Figuratively he bared his fangs. As violently as he could, he mowed 'em down...