Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change in Climate. Being neither a philosopher nor an economist, practical Harry Truman did not bother to characterize his program in philosophical terms. Actually, the State of the Union message, put together by Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford and polished by Sam Rosenman, old Roosevelt speech-polisher, was a familiar and almost dogged reiteration of virtually everything Harry Truman had been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number...
Into the Sunshine. Not very happy either about Harry Truman's ways or his chances, Humphrey managed to lead an uninstructed delegation to Philadelphia, able to jump on any bandwagon. When Humphrey and his fellow Northern liberals could draft neither Ike Eisenhower nor Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, they swallowed Truman, and tried to look happy. Then they went to work to get Truman's civil rights program into the Democratic platform. While Southerners howled, Northern liberals brought out a minority report from the platform committee, backing up the President...
Isolation. Neither highway nor railroad snowplows could cope with the storm; hard drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne...
...article states, "It will include those who oppose selective service...on political grounds such as World Federalists and YPH men." Although there are undoubtedly some World Federalists who are against the draft, and some who are for it, World Federalists do not officially either oppose it or support it. Neither the Harvard World Federalists nor the United World Federalists, the national organizations, have taken any position on this question, feeling that the main efforts of their groups should be directed solely to the main issue of world government itself. Nor have the Harvard World Federalists any connection with the Young...
...galvanized into action. Dressing like a whirlwind, his mind working like a cog, he began to work over countless fearless and colorful ideas. What, for instance, had become of the Student Council's perennially incipient investigation of food? An opening sentence popped into his teeming brain: "Neither the food nor the Student Council has shown any signs of improvement recently...