Word: pol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FDRevering New York Post, which doesn't like Bob Taft, the story rated five columns. The headline: SENATOR TAFT'S 7-DAY DIET-HOW HE POL-LOWS HIS OWN ADVICE TO 'EAT LESS MEAT...
...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...
...Walter Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Pol icy: "If I have any criticism of the book, and it is a minor one, it is that in pointing out how effective Britain's naval might was in making the Monroe Doctrine effective . . . the author rather overlooks the immense help to Britain's aims . . . given by American good will and purpose...
Died. Lorenz Hart, 48, lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee...
...country where few are well-educated, where the population is 95% Negro and mulatto, the new suffrage was a broad, democratic gesture by the Colonial Office in London; and the constitution itself was important as an expression of a new and more enlightened British colonial pol icy. Some English on the island thought last week that the constitution might eliminate "experienced legislators" and produce a "working-class landslide." But Governor Richards seemed unworried about the possibility. Norman Manley, who works as hard for unity as he works for freedom, hopefully declared his confidence "in the good sense of the public...