Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was evidently prepared to take the risk-just as Roosevelt had in forcing Henry Wallace on the 1940 convention. Twice, he called Douglas in Oregon. Douglas asked for 48 hours to make up his mind. He well knew that if he resigned from the Supreme Court, he could never expect to return. A Republican Senate was unlikely to confirm the nomination of a defeated Democrat...
Samuel Lewis, business manager of Local 3, accused the committee of favoring management against the workers. "Now don't talk that way," warned Georgia's Congressman John Wood. Bellowed Lewis: "Never mind how I talk." Lewis was convoyed out, snapping at the marshals, "Don't push me, take your hands off me," and still trying to make a speech...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice cut John Lewis down to human size, gave the railway brotherhoods a piece of his mind last week. He made permanent his temporary order prohibiting the railway firemen, engineers and switchmen from going on strike...
Culture's Bastion. "Fred" Allen, 58 years old this week, is a tall (6 ft.), spare (130 lbs.) Bostonian whose modest prayer is that his mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only...
...tradition and hierarchy. In a world which denies hierarchy in the name of equality and tradition in the name of progress, Waugh is a lonely and an angry man. The modern world revolts him. He can see little in civilization that compensates for the chaos of the modern mind or the debasement of modern life...