Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, the Pope gave practical suggestions before, during and after the war, but is there any evidence that the peacemakers of either World War paid any attention to the Church? . . . The tragedy of Austria is to be occupied by Stalin's minions whose leader gave his measure of the Church when he asked how many divisions the Pope...
...political advisers analyzed the case, on purely tactical grounds, it did not matter that his action was a reversal of policy. Twelve months ago Harry Truman had taken a merciless rawhiding from organized labor after he broke the railroad strike and proposed drastic emergency anti-strike action such as jail terms for recalcitrant labor leaders, and Army conscription of workers who balked. "Slave bill" had been labor's name for that measure, as it was for the Taft-Hartley bill. Labor's rallying cry then was: "Down with Truman" (TIME, June 10, 1946). Cool heads in Congress-notably...
...Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter of principle with him, I am not in a position...
...Mahatma (Great Soul), as he came to be called, insisted he was a religious leader, not a politician. "If I seem to take part in politics," he said, "it is only because politics today encircle us like the coils of a snake from which one cannot get out no matter how one tries. I wish to wrestle with the snake. ... I am trying to introduce religion into politics...
Alberto Goldschmidt, 47, is probably the only music critic in the world who insists that he has to carry a revolver. It is purely a matter of self-defense: in the 13 years he has been in Chile, during which time he has written criticism for Santiago's La Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso...