Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cynical Turning. Could the Democratic Party have avoided its civil war? The usual omens of political debacle were missing. The nation was prosperous at home, was working out a popularly approved program for decisive action abroad. On the face of it, Harry Truman himself seemed like a candidate who might have pleased all factions...
That was why the Democrats had been unable to postpone the inevitable. Now they were in the unenviable plight of staking their chances on a candidate they had themselves publicly repudiated. Said ex-National Chairman Jim Farley: "I'm thoroughly disgusted with the attitude and actions of some of our leaders ... If they'd think a little more of the party and the country and a little less of their own personal position, the party would be in a position to wage an aggressive campaign." Harry Truman, who had handled himself with admirable restraint and good sense through...
...Communist boss, like any other politician, knows that he can often increase his power by promising people what they want for themselves or their nation. If he can identify himself and his party with the patriotic feelings which nearly all men have, so much the better. In doing so, however, a non-Russian Communist often finds that he has to play down the Soviet Union (which is not popular in other countries). Many Communist bosses, including Togliatti in Italy and Thorez in France, have partly succumbed to the "nationalist" temptation because it makes easier their road to power...
Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...
...nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...