Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stubborn, proud, prejudiced, Kaltenborn nevertheless has stuck to the tradition of free speech and made it stick. More powerful pressure groups have tried to run him off the air than have attacked any other commentator. He has beaten all of them, including America First, which had his sponsor (Purol) on the ropes with their anti-interventionist mail. He has insisted on saying what he wanted to, and his audience (about 10,000,000) has forgiven his mistakes and gone on listening. His long-range batting average is pretty good...
Businessman's Beliefs. Along with Henry Taylor's dislike of theories which do not take that confident spirit of his ancestors into account is his sharp warning against vague postwar plans. Far from using Walter Lippmann's language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms...
...dangers in taking over power when food shortages and spiraling inflation plagued all India. Its Pakistan program, in practice, might well mean the economic suicide of the provinces involved. It is axiomatic in India that "Hindu and Moslem interests can no more be separated than you can unscramble eggs." Nevertheless, Jinnah at last dominated the areas he threatened to withdraw from the rest of India...
...stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce. It coughs out a clipful of .45-caliber pistol slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make...
Editing the New York World when it was one of the most influential of U.S. newspapers, Lippmann knew that a combination of British-American sea power was (and is) essential. "Nevertheless I was too weak-minded to take a stand against the exorbitant folly of the Washington Disarmament Conference." He praised that disaster as a triumph, denounced the admirals who dared to protest. "Of that episode in my life I am ashamed, all the more so because I had no excuse for not knowing better...