Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Safety Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor was on record: "I ain't gonna let no darkies and white folk segregate together in this town." While Wallace waited in his car near by, a representative announced that he would not speak to any meeting that "violates the right of free assembly"-meaning a segregated meeting. A volley of eggs sailed over his head. A small, angry group found Wallace's car, thumped fists on its fenders, took turns glaring through the windows. "Look at that guy," said one. "He can't even afford to get a haircut...
...over a specially prepared chronology of Democratic foreign policy. He soaked up new ideas from a constant stream of visitors-from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press...
...voted against him, except his one fellow Communist. Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer, Cologne's ex-mayor and one of Germany's most respected public figures, took over as chairman. Said he: "A start must be made so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world...
Reimann broke in once more: "Free...
...tests, television advertising has a sharper impact than advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some 400,000, a not inconsiderable portion of our free American press may be headed toward becoming a bankrupt press...