Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seething Stew. "[It] would mean that for ten or 15 years Moscow, not Washington, would define the issues." It would also mean asking Congress for a blank check for money and military forces to apply "counterforce" at a moment's notice-impossible to conceive of under the U.S. constitutional system, "even more unsuited to the American economy, which is unregimented and uncontrolled...
...giving the Red Army, rather than Marxism, the credit for Russia's present powerful position, Pundit Lippmann was on debatable ground-and had failed to note that the Red Army was built by Russia's Marxist rulers. And did Lippmann mean to say that Stalin's objectives were no wider than Peter's old-fashioned imperialism? It seemed clear to many people that Soviet Russia was a new-fashioned force...
...said one council member, for the great John Lewis, sitting astride a union that dominated an entire industry, to defy the NLRB; he could not get hurt. But what about the small unions which have many cases pending before the NLRB? John Lewis' refusal to play ball would mean that every A.F.L. local might have to forfeit its right to go to the NLRB for help in disputes with employers. The Great Man's answer shocked some of his listeners: it was a heresy to the doctrine that in union there is strength. Roared Lewis: "The weak must...
...fighters in my class at one time, but how do you think I got my money? I didn't get all of it from boxing. I was a stickup man that's what I was at the age of 16. I was boss of a gang, I mean I was the head of some tough guys...
...Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...