Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...
Cartoonists, to Arms! Some of the columnists who were embroiled deeply in the Term III campaign were oddly aloof. Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson seemed preoccupied with the larger world. But Walter Winchell campaigned indefatigably, rallying café society to the Term IV cause with a rapid-fire retelling of anti-Dewey stories...
...Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What shape of heads? This collection will give to history a personal piquancy...
Some commentators, notably Walter Lippmann, were still debating which of several strategies the Allies would employ against the Jap. But it now became clear that all possible strategies could be used, all routes to Tokyo could be traversed. Said the conference's sole communiqué: the "barbarians of the Pacific" will be destroyed...
What few seemed to grasp was that the planning and changeover to a peace economy would be infinitely tougher, and politically more explosive, than the 1940 American conversion to war. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "We shall have to face fully the realities . . . which are now as little understood as were the danger and imminence of war in the winter of 1940. How little that was understood may be judged from the fact that two months before the fall of France, the House cut the number of replacement airplanes of the Army to 57, and the President did not publicly object...