Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus the Democratic Party's 1948 platform (he helped write it, he said), plus his campaign speeches, provide an up-to-date view of Mr. Truman's ideas which, if he is as consistent in the future as he has been in the past, he will recommend...
Full Dinner Pail. It had been, in the past. It was founded as a crusading party, champions of free farmers and free labor against slaveholders and slavery. Until 1908, labor had been traditionally Republican. The A.F.L.'s Samuel Gompers was a frequent visitor to the White House when McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt occupied it. The McKinley program of prosperity and "the full dinner pail" appealed to farmers and workers as well as employers...
...Communist Prague, two trash collectors sat in a cafe on St. Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...
...Sargent. Worst of all U.S. universities, he insists, is his own alma mater, Harvard. "There is a hopelessness, a futility about life, a transparent pretense on the part of the fat boys, a feeling of despair on the part of those who still retain some consciousness of an honest past . . ." The reason: "The Corporation through its stooges" has gradually taken control of the administration and faculty alike...