Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago Arthur Bliss Lane returned to the U.S. from the hardest assignment of his 31 years in the Foreign Service. As Ambassador to the Russian-dominated government of Poland he could remember little but frustration. So that he would be free to speak as a private citizen on Poland's "tragedy," tired Arthur Lane resigned. Last week Harry Truman picked his successor. Warsaw was in for something. The new Ambassador will be 59-year-old Stanton Griffis...
...Hardest Fall. On the other hand, durable-goods makers had done poorly in 1946. Now that they were reaching peak production, they were doing very well. On the basis of General Motors annual report last week Wall Streeters computed that G.M. earned $73 million in the last quarter of 1946, a rate which would pour in a record $292 million in net profits this year -if all went well. But it was the durable-goods industries which were now faced with new wage demands. And there was no guarantee that price cuts would eliminate them. Ford has cut prices...
...Latin American newspapers, La Prensa is about the hardest to coerce. It regularly prints more classified ads than any paper anywhere - an average of six pages a day, all bought in cash across the counter before publication. Display ads get the back pages. Thus, up to a point, La Prensa can tell industry and commerce as well as Government what it thinks of them...
...hardest jobs the President had to do last week was to sit still in Key West while his daughter made her radio debut in Detroit. Margaret had a good choir-average soprano voice, and she had trained it faithfully for years. Had she been anyone else, most of the U.S. would have missed her show. But now a record 15 million listeners waited for the worst...
Ablest and hardest hitting is Durham M. Miller's article "Propaganda and Democracy." To offset the practice of the reactionary press of allowing the only meager, selected details to ooze through the policy-filters down to the average reader, he calls for a nation-wide network of intellectual-labor newspapers, the smashing of the wood pulp and press machinery monopolies, and the establishment of "watch dogs" over the public interest in an unshackled press. "World Government, But First One World," by Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis...