Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even better news for Democratic regulars was the condition of party fortunes as a whole. From a post-election slump (down to 47% last Christmas), the Democrats had bounced back into favor with 55% of U.S. voters, exactly the same percentage with which Roosevelt beat Wendell Willkie in 1940, 1.2 points more than the margin by which Roosevelt beat Tom Dewey...
...black-bordered box that resembled a card of condolence, an editorial in the New York Post last week began: "This is an expression of sympathy to the friends and families of those of our readers who will die in [Fourth of July] accidents . . . through the carelessness of themselves or others...
...meant to shock, and it did. Two days later, the Post reprinted part of its editorial over a long list of highway crashes, drownings and other holiday fatalities...
...Shanghai. After a lapse of nearly ten years, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. resumed telephone service between the U.S. and China ($12 plus tax for three minutes). One of the first commercial calls from the U.S. rang the phone of Woo Kyatang, executive editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. "Hello, darling!" said a feminine voice from Washington, "How are you, dear?" When puzzled Woo failed to respond, the voice went on: "This is Dorothy, darling. How are you? . . . Isn't this Bill?" No, said Editor Woo, wrong number...
Their "bird's-eye view of the world," as the Houston Post's Oveta Gulp Hobby termed it, made varying impressions on the globe-girdlers. Thomas H. Beck, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., had left prophesying war in three years; he returned "more convinced than ever that it is true." Scripps-Howard's dapper Roy Wilson Howard saw "palms up everywhere around the world," found everyone fearful of "the menace of Communism...