Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, hard week for Harry Truman. Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
...C.I.O. convention a month ago, Phil Murray stormed at some of his union leaders for being Communists, at others for failing to work hard enough at their jobs. He struck out immediately at some Redlined wrongdoers.* Last week his wrath fell on one of the failures...
...many of his members as he could. But in the face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky, Russian-born but no Communist, an elegant old warhorse of trade unionism, it was a fine opportunity. An estimated 6,000,000 store workers in the U.S. are still unorganized...
Those are the turns, as the American has witnessed them. And it is hard for him to discern in them anything he can describe by the word "principle...
Some very good poetry was written in 1948, most of it by the older and established writers. No bright young poet blazed a sensational new trail-not even as narrow and hard to follow as the one Robert Lowell blazed...