Word: laborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey had never been so bold: he had given his approval to most items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...
Morris started the fireworks. He is a wealthy, 47-year-old Yale man who was one of Fiorello La Guardia's most active proteges and is backed by Labor's David Dubinsky. Holding the mantle of the Little Flower like a bullfighter's cape, he leaped into the arena, flapped it at the mayor-and then set hurriedly off after that well-scuffed political kigmy, Gambler Frank Costello. He implied heatedly that Costello ruled Tammany and that Tammany ruled O'Dwyer. He did not document the allegation, but for all that, it had a fine, wild...
...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
...Laborites enjoyed a few moments of high glee when conservative, ruddy-jowled Sir John Anderson said that he did not want to see the sort of events that followed World War I. Since Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time Sir John referred to, Labor members hooted and Churchill glowered at his shirt front. Herbert Morrison taunted both of them, and for a while Churchill and Anderson were popping up & down like marionettes to answer...
Over the Fence? Attlee stuck doggedly to his decision not to hold an election this year. A straw poll recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House of Commons. This margin is too thin to withstand severe crises, Laborites think. They believe that by next spring they will be either over the fence or crumpled up in front of it. Said one: "we're determined to have a damned good shot at getting out of this...