Word: jonahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican bosses, out of power so long that they could not find a dyed-in-the-wool GOPster, were confronted with a choice between two Democrats. They picked one Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
...Jonah Unity...
...Moscow radio -a bit of "Soviet caterwauling" (to use your phrase) the justification for which is "hard to guess" (TIME, March 26). The "caterwauling" tries to identify me as an "imperialist." In support of this ridiculous theme, it charges me with wanting the kind of world unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale." Yes; I used that phrase in my Senate speech of last Jan. 10. How did I use it? I said: "We accept no conception that our contribution to unity must be silence, while others say and do what they please . . . and that unity...
W.W.C. said that Senator Vandenberg, who will be one of the U.S. delegates to the San Francisco Conference, wants the U.S. to boss the world: he wants the kind of unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale...
...Europe long before Munich-went through the bombing of Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage of the year for his eyewitness story of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst...