Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman, succeeding B. Carroll Reece, went 47-year-old Hugh Scott Jr., a three-term Congressman from a suburban Philadelphia "silk-stocking" district.* Scott, a follower of old Joe Grundy, was recommended by Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, to whom Dewey owed much. But that did not mean that Grundymen were going to run Tom Dewey's campaign. That would remain in the hands of precise, able Herbert Brownell...
...mean war between the U.S. and Russia? Only the Russians knew the answer to that question; Americans profoundly hoped not. There were three possible alternatives, short...
Last week the U.S. and Britain were following a third course. There was no name for it yet, but it meant standing fast. When the Russians shut off food trains, the U.S. flew in what supplies it could. Standing fast could also mean arming Western food trains and leaving the Russians the choice of stopping them or not. In a speech at week's end, Winston Churchill said: "It is our heart's desire that peace may be preserved, but we should by now have learned that there is no safety in yielding to dictators, whether Nazi...
...that mean that ECA wanted none of the grain from bulging River Plate elevators? Not exactly, answered Hensel, but Argentina would have to "go out and get the market"-i.e., bargain with the U.S. ECA's terms: 1) no more price-gouging (Eire recently paid $6.85 a bushel for Argentine wheat-July futures at Chicago are now $2.31); 2) no more state trading practices such as have throttled U.S. business firms in Argentina; 3) a pledge that Argentina will underwrite some of the costs of feeding Europe...
...proposing a widespread rotation of the not-too-pleasant duties of the public service. And I do not mean merely part-time 'dollar-a-year' service alone. I propose that out of the best and most productive years of your life, you should carve out a segment in which you put your private career aside to serve your community and your country, and thereby . . . your children, your neighbors, your fellow men, and the cause of freedom...