Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back in print after two weeks of Government-decreed suspension during The Crisis, British weeklies of all political shades seriously accused the Government of endangering freedom of the press by a "state of compulsion" (the Catholic Herald) and a "remarkable indifference to principle" (the socialist New Statesman and Nation...
...Herald Tribune pointed out: "It is time for Republicans to stop and ask themselves seriously just what the party proposes to do with its new power. ... It has no mandate to return to a now irrecoverable past of blind isolationism, narrow prejudice, obedience to this or that hidden pressure or influence, the whole McKellar brand of demagoguery. ... It is the party leadership which is now meeting the first tests of public opinion...
...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
Shinwell was hit by blasts from the Laborite press, as well as by demands to resign in the Conservative papers. He had only one press defender: London's Communist Daily Worker (it blamed the Tories). London's Daily Herald, staunch friend of the Labor Government, severely took the Cabinet to task for failing to keep the public informed of the developing crisis. Said the Herald...
Recitals are again more a matter of quantity than quality: Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach cycles are being given concurrently this month by the young musicians. The big sensation of the past month was the arrival of Claudio Arrau. Billed, by a quote from the Boston Herald, as the "greatest pianist of our time," the Chilean virtuoso almost lived up to the title. Between masterful performance of the G major and E flat Beethoven concerti, he gave an immensely successful recital highlighted by magnificent performances of the Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and the Brahms Variations on a theme by Pagannini...