Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bracketing Martin with New York's anti-New Deal Congressmen Bruce Barton and Hamilton Fish, F.D.R. sneered: "That great historic trio . . . Martin, Barton and Fish." Joe Martin summed up his own political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command of a self-inspired leader. In Europe they call it Fascism. Here we call it the New Deal...
...others, George Gallup was ready with another report on what the U.S. people thought about shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages & kings. He announced that 52% thought the U.S. should have daylight time only in summer; a solid 60% thought a Stalin-Truman meeting would be a good idea; 55% approved of military aid to China...
Fall of the Digest. He talked the idea over with a blond, blue-eyed Midwestern salesman of newspaper features named Harold Anderson, who had become a partner in Gallup's research service. Anderson jumped at it, urged Gallup on. He began lining up newspaper publishers, soon interested both the Washington Post's Eugene Meyer and the New York Herald Tribune's Helen Rogers Reid...
...week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present...
...never read plays," George Bernard Shaw told Broadway Producer Jean Dalrymple. "I think it is a very bad idea for a playwright to read plays. If the play is good he is bound to be influenced by it and even to steal something from...