Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have offered no working democratic alternative to Communism," continued Baldwin. "We locked up strike leaders. Our present policy is making for a Soviet Korea." Of the Sovietized Korea north of the 38th parallel, Baldwin saw nothing. Although he has defended the civil rights of hundreds of U.S. Communists, the Russians said that a visit from Baldwin would be undesirable...
...government machinery will roughly parallel that of the U.S., with a Senate and Chamber of Deputies, a Supreme Court with the power to pass on the constitutionality of laws. The President will be elected for a four-year term by direct universal suffrage, but cannot succeed himself for two following terms. Most controversial measure: the power given the President, subject to the approval of Congress, to order the "preventive detention of persons who there is reason to believe are implicated" in plans to overthrow the Government...
First Shot. The C.I.O. and A.F.L., working separately but on parallel tracks, opened their legal campaign. There was ample precedent for such tactics. All important laws get their court tests, and labor laws get the most stringent tests of all. In 1936, management blasted away at the Wagner Act with 83 test suits in the first ten months...
...legislature and Democratic executive has come out into the open, and will remain aired until next year's crucial elections swing political fortunes either way. Should Mr. Truman concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve the bill, he will not only commit his party to a course almost parallel to the Republican route, but also will keep the desperate unions away from the polls next year, or possibly tempt them to form a third party under eager Henry Wallace...
Quebec Catholics, and Canadians at large, were quick to point out the parallel between his career and that of Cardinal Villeneuve. The latter was a seminarian, free from factional ties, consecrated at 46 and given the red hat less than three years later. Canadians wondered whether Monsignor Roy would complete the parallel by becoming a cardinal at the next Papal consistory...