Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, John P. Boyd, special assistant to Attorney General Tom Clark, said: "We have evidence that has never been shown up to now. We're sure we'll win-otherwise we wouldn't have brought all this before the grand jury. This is the first criminal indictment ever returned against Bridges." Harry Bridges, a noisy foe of the Truman Administration, had his own theory about the charges: "A smokescreen to get people's attention away from what's happening in Washington...
British Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
...suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request for a visa last year...
...staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...
Nobody knows exactly why Moscow jams Voice of America broadcasts, yet permits the Russians to listen freely to the voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...