Word: reacts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie's opportunities to make mistakes in the campaign all lie ahead, while Roosevelt has had seven years in which, perhaps, to have made all the political mistakes he is likely to make...
...last your policy is showing results! At last your readers, inflicted with slanted news reports, "subtle" editorializing and carefully selected stories, are beginning to react in the approved manner. It must be a great source of personal satisfaction to the editors of TIME to realize that they are using a powerful instrument to prime the people for a "glorious struggle" to "save Democracy" . . . again...
...attempting to draw him out about the Third Term. He was, he said, President of the United States, sticking close to the affairs of the nation, as his position dictated; he would not go to the Convention. But the uncertainty over what he intended to do, how he would react when he received the nomination that all observers agreed he would get, was a more powerful political force than any political action he could have taken, any political statement he could have made. And when Chicago observers looked over the scene-the other candidates stymied, the delegates supporting Roosevelt because...
...tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week, for Japan to react to the new U. S. wave of appeasement...
...first eight months of World War II, many a U. S. businessman did not strongly react. He strolled through them loudly isolationist, thankful for whatever war orders came his way, half presuming that no future could be worse than the past ten years of Depression and New Deal...