Word: expect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress knew just about what to expect from the President. He had worked all week on his message, brushing up its language during a weekend cruise on the Potomac. The speech would go back over most of the same ground he had already covered at Philadelphia (TIME, July 26): federal aid to education, an increased minimum wage, a civil-rights program. Two added starters: approval of the international wheat agreement and the $65 million loan to build U.N.'s permanent headquarters...
...Governor J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the bolting Dixiecrats (TIME, July 26), confirmed the birth of a fourth party (the States' Rights Democrats), announced that it would try to get on the ballot in every state. Said he: "We are running for President and Vice President and expect to be elected...
Fogo, a Halifax lawyer, Nova Scotia-born-&-bred, is a man without political ambitions for himself, a reliable worker behind the scenes, whose political gift is to stop bootless quarreling and secure quiet settlements. Liberals expect him to make a good convention co-chairman (French-Canadian cochairman, Joseph Blanchette). But since he was only 23 when the last Liberal convention was held, he has a bit to learn about the procedure...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko, Soviet U.N. spokesman for more than two years, waved goodbye to Manhattan, sailed for home. To the press he was as laconic as ever. Was he happy to be going home? "Yes, I am glad . . ." Did he expect to come back? "I hope not." What about the U.N.? "It absolutely must succeed...
...time the confusion over basing points is cleared up*-and the new raises added-some steel users expect to be paying as much as $80 a ton for finished steel, up to 30% more than last month. A sprinkling of new wage increases also sent up the prices of glass, copper wire and cable (5% to 13%) and dozens of other items. (United Air Lines, Inc. applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 10% rise in passenger rates...