Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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. . . Dr. Grace Fernald's clinic school at U.C.L.A. [TIME, July 12] unwittingly puts a finger on the fundamental fault of present-day grade school education. Why was a boy who was unable to read or write promoted year after year until he reached the fifth grade ? And how much...
Harry Truman, who had preferred Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, made no further effort to buck the convention's wishes. Called by National Chairman Howard McGrath, Truman said: "I love him like a brother... If the convention wants Alben, of course he is acceptable."
Was there really a pressing national emergency? Harry Truman said there was. But who was talking-the President or the politician? Harry Truman's call for a special session of Congress was made at a political convention; it would be judged largely on its political motives and for its...
Pursuing further your footnote relative to the bristle-thighed curlew [TIME, June 28], it might be well to note . . . that the red-eyed crosspatch is merely my husband the morning after the night before . . .
It was the Democrats' last anguished wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment...