Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were a strange group who found it hard to agree. As far as Nourse was concerned, the job was to report the economic terrain exactly as he saw it. As far as Keyserling was concerned, the job was to report the scene so that it fitted into the political philosophy of Harry Truman's Democratic Party. Between those two points of view, Clark wavered back & forth. In the beginning, Nourse's view of the CEA as an economic transit, not a political tool, generally prevailed...
...Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
After the resignation (TIME, Oct. 17) of the Radicals' Henri Queuille (because of Socialist contumacy), President of the Republic Vincent Auriol had called on Socialist Jules Moch, a hard-hitting Minister of Interior in the Queuille regime, to see what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals...
...changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living. As the nation grew, Dewey's philosophy had grown with it-highly practical, preaching adjustment to change, made in U.S.A...
...modest margin of two extra points was all the hard-driving freshman football team needed to beat Dartmouth at Hanover yesterday...