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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...results: 1) a bigger national vote than was expected; 2) a tremendous strengthening of labor's political power in the states as well as in Washington; 3) a new No. 1 labor politician with more prestige than failing John L. Lewis ever...
...Isolationist? "My opponent says that the heavy hand of isolationism governed our country in the 1920s. Does he mean to apply that term to the three great Republican Secretaries of State: Charles Evans Hughes, Frank B. Kellogg and Henry L. Stimson, his own present Secretary of War? If so, I am afraid he has a very convenient memory...
...that we really had our last chance to bring order out of the chaos of international money exchange and trade. The London Economic Conference had been labored over for months by Republican Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. . . . Mr. Roosevelt deliberately scuttled that conference. That was the most completely isolationist action ever taken by an American President in our 150 years of history...
...Harry Byrd, fourth was ready to follow suit. And it was too late, apparently, to do anything much about it. While there was yet time (before September 7), New Dealers had not put a pro-Roosevelt list of electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently decided that the racial plank of the Democratic platform was "obnoxious." Day later, Gov. Bailey said...
...André Malraux (Man's Hope; Man's Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...