Word: idols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marched out to speak in a neighborhood of dirty, dingy brick houses. This was the rebellious northeast section which three times had helped to throw Philadelphia into the camp of Roosevelt. Here were the hosiery mills, the machine shops and shipyards. Franklin Roosevelt had been their idol. But Roosevelt was dead...
...Past. In 1940 another American idol had proclaimed: "Cooperation is never impossible when there is sufficient gain on both sides." It had taken some Americans quite a while to find out that Charles Lindbergh was offering them a counterfeit...
Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris...
...will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations are nevertheless valuable to the student of British socialism...
...loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...