Word: mistrustful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuesday's elections sharply underline a significance far larger and far more ominous than any simple reaction against a New Deal adjusting too slowly to the management of a nation at war. The 1942 elections, held less than a year after Pearl Harbor, are a vote of mistrust in the president who saw what the war would mean to American before its outbreak in Europe--and the chose for American the part of courage and the part of right. The American people today place their trust in the Republican Party--the party of pre-Pearl Harbor isolation...
...Fighting French had a tougher, more thankless job. From the Vichyfrench administration they had inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness...
...anything but meaningless. They knew that the Government had perforce solved most of its fiscal worries in the war years by printing money. They knew that fiscal reform, the main point of which had been Government assumption of the land tax, had not worked too well. They knew that mistrust of the Government's money had driven many Chinese, rich & poor, to selfish hoarding, particularly of rice...
...over the likelihood of substitution, and engineers are already eying Ford's elaborate, automatic machines for making cylinder sleeves. Overnight these can be adapted, with no essential changes, to making 80,000 sleeve-like steel shell casings per day. The Army eyes the whole project with faint, traditional mistrust...
...mellow, flute-playing historian last week dedicated a book about Franklin Roosevelt. Called Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat,* the book has for its author Gerald White Johnson, a 51-year-old editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun. For its object the book has the aim of reducing the mistrust which many of the 22,000,000 Americans who voted against Roosevelt have for their President...