Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Turned up at a luncheon given by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and promised to keep plugging for his civil rights program. Said the President "I don't see how we can do otherwise than pass this legislation."
Both sides had accepted the campaign as a national battleground. President Truman had proclaimed Lehman his man. Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
Among his accomplishments: abolition of segregation in New Jersey's National Guard, an increase in teachers' minimum salaries (from $1,200 to $2,200), a sickness-liability law covering 1,600,000 workers and a $50 million veterans' housing program.
Needed: Definition. At the core of the European jam was Germany. The Western powers had never really agreed among themselves on a policy toward the new West German Republic. Within the loose framework of the occupation statute (TIME, April 18), they floundered between a policy that would build up West...
This week, in the General Assembly's Political Committee, Vishinsky again drummed away at his favorite theme-"Western Germany is about to be used as ... a springboard for a new aggression on the Soviet Union." When he had quieted down, the U.S.'s Warren Austin dramatically delivered the...