Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...resolves of people and their authority among nations been so summed up in a single commanding personality. ... In the sense that he has been during the war years a temporal embodiment to his age of eternal England, Winston Churchill can have no successor. . . ." Said Labor's Daily Herald: "There is not the slightest doubt that gratitude to Churchill as a war leader, admiration for his genius, and reverence for his courage is shared by every party and every social class...
...Boston Herald, July 24: "The snap reaction to the report of the Harvard Committee . . . is that this completes a cycle. We had out long period of educational rigidity and standardized curricula. Then came the free elective system as perfected by President Eliot. And now we are back again to the ideal of uniformity, if not conformity. The emphasis is to be once more on what is common to all men rather than on what is individual to each...
...Russians promoted the Union on the eve of the Big Three parley? London's Daily Herald offered a clue. The Big Three, it reported, will discuss a common administrative policy for all Germany and an overall German government under Allied control. In any such discussion, Generalissimo Stalin would be way ahead of the game. His part of Germany was the only one with ready-made political parties and a program on which the new Reich might be built...
When Benjamin Fine, New York Times education editor, blasted the story over two columns on page one of the Times and the Boston Herald, other pagers threw the release date out the window and climbed one the wagon. Preliminary editorial opinion from the press seems entirely favorable to the report, though hot debate is expected among local and national educators...