Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AFFAIRS) would look like when Congress got through with it. As laid out by President Truman, it called for the spending of $2,615 million by the U.S. in other Western Hemisphere countries in the 15 months ending June 30, 1949. Canadians hoped, with good reason, that it would mean enough U.S. dollars to solve the Dominion's foreign exchange troubles...
...weary after four hours of haggling, Senator Robert Taft announced that he was about to start rewriting the Republican policy statement on inflation. Could he give out the gist of it? Not until it was rewritten, said Taft. "The words have to be exact or they don't mean anything," he said, flashing a copy of the statement, which was X-ed out, scrawled over and heavily edited in nearly every line...
...think that grain speculation had caused higher food prices-"even though certain loose charges to that effect have been tossed about by some political parties and candidates." Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson asked blandly if by any chance he meant President Truman? "No," snapped Ed Pauley, "I mean Harold Stassen...
...Communists were powerful. So. long as they did not call for a general strike, Italians assumed that the Reds could bring one off. Now they had made the gesture, and the "weak" De Gasperi government had been able to overcome it. Collapse of the strike, however, did not mean that Communist power in Italy was broken or even badly bent. Conservative Rome was not the Red stronghold. Yet the Rome fiasco cost the Communists face, and partially freed De Gasperi from the constant threat of veto action by Communist-led unions against government policies...
...average peasant is probably thinking that "the masses will eat tomorrow," as the result of this week's Soviet deflation program, Capa observed. "All he cares about is his bread and cabbage and how the end of rationing will mean a great deal more...