Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greater tribute to the American system need be written than the rise to the Presidency of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover and Harry S. Truman...
Eventually there might be some jettisoning of Cabinet members not in full sympathy with the "Second New Deal." But nobody knew better than Harry Truman that for the four-year term he had earned for himself he would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard...
Labor's province, Douglas declared, was now the world. "It is labor, organized and independent labor, that can supply much of the leadership, energy, and motive which we need today." Its responsibility should no longer be confined to the bargaining table. Its responsibility was now national and international...
...impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What we need is action...
...smug and desultory debate on "aid to China" droned along in Washington conference rooms. Nobody seemed to think -certainly nobody spoke-of how the U.S. was to get the aid from China it would need in the years to come. Nobody said: "This is our war, and this is a major battle." Nobody asked for whom the bell tolled...