Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps his most important caller was Minneapolis' cocky, fast-talking Democratic Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey, who is thinking of running for the Senate against Joe Ball but would not mind ending up as Harry Truman's running mate. He said that the President should get out and show himself to the people...
...personal note to Stalin with his own hand. He offered to send the battleship Missouri to bring Stalin to the U.S., promised to accompany him to the University of Missouri at Columbia (20 miles from Fulton) for "exactly the same kind of reception, the same opportunity to speak his mind." Stalin's answer, as usual: "Nyet...
Washington politicos began to ask: "What is Harold up to?" They got a partial answer. Stories began to leak out of Washington of a midnight meeting between Stassen and Taft. Before Stassen had made up his mind to enter the Ohio primary, Taft had paid a call at Stassen's Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront...
...entire attitude toward the Marshall Plan is based on his theory that an "international Jewish organization" controls our foreign policy. How can the Free Enterprise Society maintain that his economic views can be separated from the general friendliness to fascism that is so obviously intertwined with them in his mind? How can its officers ignore the sinster similarity between Hart's views, both economic and political, and those which brought Hitler to power in Germany? How can they fail to realize that, by bringing him here despite their knowledge of his record, they were adding to his prestige and thus...
Here are some thoughts that passed through my mind while and after seeing "Gentleman's Agreement" in Boston. They're thoughts which have passed through my mind when I've had a chance to think, and I'm sure they've passed through the minds of a lot of other people under the same sort of circumstances...