Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really a presidential candidate; all he wanted to be was Massachusetts' best senator. Then he ticked off his own list of "leading candidates." Tom Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...
...gave to the West last week was worth pondering. It meant that Vishinsky's masters, whose people and land put Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly...
Clement Attlee is going to fire some of his ministers. For both it would be a painful business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he shared Labor's triumph in 1945. For them, it would be the moment when they must go to the King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably...
Whom would Prime Minister Attlee decide to fire? The guesses filling the British press were not worth the paper wasted on them. Many of the changes, when they came, would not mean much to Americans. But what mattered, and would matter more & more as the U.S. stake in Britain increased, was the continuing battle of ideas behind these changes and others that would certainly follow before British socialism had run its course. At the moment, most of those engaged in this battle regarded it as nothing more than a fight for individual and factional advantage. This was an illusion...
...STAB HOUSEWIVES. In Toronto other housewives wired Prime Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...