Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: WE HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT AN EVENT WHICH TIME HAS GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. WE ARE REFERRING TO YOUR BADLY DISTORTED, WHOLLY INACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEWEY RALLY AT THE LOS ANGELES COLISEUM (TIME, OCT. 2). IF YOU ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR ROOSEVELT, WHY DON'T YOU SAY SO. . . . WE PREFER "SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF A HIGH ORDER" RATHER THAN "A VETERAN VIRTUOSO PLAYING A PIECE HE HAS LOVED FOR YEARS...
There was some reason to believe that the President's personal preference for the Morgenthau Plan would fade under the steady pressure of the two Cabinet officers who will actually have the most responsibility in the occupation of Germany. Furthermore, it might cost votes from those citizens who would prefer a more careful-and less vindictive-program for the re-education of Germany. And finally, it was of the highest political urgency that the latest Cabinet split be mended before Candidate Dewey hammered again at the "old, tired, quarrelsome" men of Washington...
...Political Bushwhacking." Press comment was generally divided along partisan lines. The New York Times, which seems to prefer Term IV to Tom Dewey, praised the speech; the Republican New York Herald Tribune derided it. Of the independents, the most significant comment came from the Washington Post, which is more often pro-Roosevelt than not. The Post severely criticized the speech as "a cheap variety of political bushwhacking . . . at a moment when spiritual leadership of a high order is urgently needed. . . . It is doubtful whether the President's indispensability complex has ever been more boldly exhibited...
...Byrd? These 23 votes had been very important since last May, when a well organized group of anti-New Dealers took control of the state's Democratic machine (TIME, June 5). These "regular" Democrats had calmly picked as the state's 23 Presidential electors men who generally prefer Harry Byrd to Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...dreadful new ideas. They want to destroy everyone who has a little something, a little education, a little breeding." Then she stroked Emily's hair. "Pretty grey hair," she said, "we're getting old together." After a moment she added: "Have you ever noticed how older men prefer young girls?" "Sensible men don't," Emily replied a little coldly. "I know, dear," said Margaret, "but older men are seldom sensible...