Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Comfort. Even leftists had their eyes opened. Wrote France's often pro-Communist Franc-Tireur: "In this sad adventure . . . Russia has wound up creating the very [Western] bloc she wanted to avoid. . . ." Wrote London's Laborite Daily Herald: "Russia's present policy is aimed calmly and deliberately at preventing European unity...
Page after page of the Sydney Morning Herald spelled out the No. 1 problem of Australia: the labor shortage. In one day last week the paper carried 68 columns of finely printed "situations vacant" ads. Government rolls listed 47,000 unfilled jobs, and thousands more were not listed at all. A few years ago the well-protected Australian worker would have rent the air with redundant obscenities if an Englishman or Scot competed with him for a job. Now even a Sydney wharfie knows that foreign workers are needed...
Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Express headlined: BUGSY RUBOUT LINKED TO LOVE TRIANGLE. The story began: "Revelation of a quarrel and breakup between . . . [Siegel] and Virginia Hill, beauteous mystery-veiled heiress, and the disclosure of a 'No. 1 boy friend' in her romantic life led police to the theory that a 'love triangle' rather than an underworld 'double-cross' may have touched off the gangland czar's rubout...
Columbia University's choice of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as its new president, to take office next year, had brought mostly cheers- but there were a few who had reservations. Said the New York Herald Tribune last week: "There will inevitably be regrets that the trustees were unable to find a scholar of the first rank qualified for the post. Plainly, in turning to General Eisenhower, they elected to subordinate the question of learning, of the skills in education, to the more practical issues of administration. . . . It can be argued that the present era of confusion calls for just...
...scholars might do as well or better, was at least a debatable question. But Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower's great ability . . . in dealing...