Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost a labor vote. We haven't lost...
...regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia backed the Czechs for the vacant seat and disapproved of Yugoslavia, it was both "illegal and improper" that her candidacy even came up before the Assembly...
...salvation outside the Catholic Church has been the cause of the con- troversy which has gene on between the Archbishop and the Jesuits, on the one hand, and Father Feeney, on the other, since October 1947. Last January Father Feeney was "deprived on his faculties" by Archbishop Cushing. This meant that he could no longer say Mass or hear confession...
...TIME-Reader Winston finish the story, as she recently wrote it in a letter to me: "On July 22, I wandered into an art gallery on the left bank in Paris and was attracted to some paintings by G. Sekoto. The name meant nothing to me-and I knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner...
Congress applauded. Those who wanted to know where India stood in the present world crisis could ask no more-if Nehru's statement meant what it seemed to mean. However, in other speeches throughout the week Nehru made it clear that he was against aligning India with the U.S. in a concerted effort to contain the only aggressor in sight. Americans who looked upon U.S. policy as a bulwark against the Communist threat to freedom would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time...