Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this climate, the debate got under way. Ohio's Taft spoke from one end of the line: "There may of course be a mandate on the President to request the repeal (of the Taft-Hartley Act), but ... certainly the people did not elect a Congress in any way pledged to [its] repeal...
Perhaps publication of all the names was beyond anyone's control-but that was small consolation to the people accused. Some may have been Communists as charged, some innocent. But none had his day in court to make the convincing reply that fair play entitled...
...French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn upon whether they can be made a democratic, peace-loving people...
...taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard Law School...
...Russians and their German comrades are expected to make all possible trouble. McCloy is supposed to encourage German industry, but he knows that the countries which now have Germany's old markets may not like that. He is supposed to encourage German democracy, but he knows that poverty may lead again to extreme German nationalism...