Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with New York's anti-New Deal Congressmen Bruce Barton and Hamilton Fish, F.D.R. sneered: "That great historic trio . . . Martin, Barton and Fish." Joe Martin summed up his own political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command of a self-inspired leader. In Europe they call it Fascism. Here we call it the New Deal...
...Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners. The salary: $7,000. In addition to supervising elections, the commission compiles lists of prospective jurors for Suffolk County and is charged with keeping them free of criminals...
...soon a message went out from Communist headquarters to "stop moping." Palmiro Togliatti gave out the official excuse for the defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...
...instance, Operations Director Jay Jansen of HYRC is also a leader of the Taft forces; HYRC Publicity Director Loring M. Staples is a moving force in the Free Enterprise Society; John Casey of HYRC Speakers' Division heads a Dewey group; while Dan Pierce of the Republican Open Forum also holds the reins of the flourishing College Stassenites...
...study group, takes no part in political action and limits itself to philosophic contemplation. The same can be said for the Student League for Industrial Democracy, which has renounced all former affiliation with the Liberal Union and the old Student Union to pursue its own quiet ways. Neither the Free Enterprise Society nor the all-but-extinct Conservative League meddle with action, following their own cautious paths unmolested...