Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides military and civilian officials who have been unable to express their views publicly, the opposition includes prominent religious and educational leaders . . . [who] feel that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
...Sacrificial Altar." The week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been...
...when he was given his first important party job: running Ed Martin's 1942 campaign for the governorship. When Martin won, Duff was rewarded with the post of state attorney general. When Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate, party bigwigs considered four other men for the governorship before they finally settled...
...nonpolitical military man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur sounded strangely like a presidential candidate last week. From the busy Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan came a letter to the Republican National Committee...
...Vera Conard, president of the Women's Club of America, called on U.S. women to crusade for a woman President of the U.S. Among her nominations: the Duchess of Windsor, Clare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Replied Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women voters would not support a woman. . . . Women don't like to see other women get ahead...