Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative liberal," which means, he says thoughtfully, that "I believe in the greatest good for the greatest number." One of his more conservative Republican colleagues cracked: "We actually have a hard time keeping him out of the lap of guys like Claude Pepper." And John Bricker was heard to remark last summer: "I hear the Socialists have gotten to Taft." These hyperboles indicate, at least, that if Taft wears the party harness, he goes his own gait...
Leader M. J. Coldwell. And in Mackenzie King's speech last November in Quebec, he made what was considered a left-handed bid to the socialist CCF to join the Liberals, in a pointed remark about the ineffectiveness of "a multiplicity of parties...
...Snavely's second remark simply does not square with the facts. According to the available figures, about one hundred thousand qualified secondary-school graduates are barred from attending college every tear solely because they are poor. This group, almost half as large as the total college enrollment of the nation, cannot be absorbed within present scholarship funds without reducing the average grant to an inadequate pittance, and the part-time job market in the typically small college community is already oversupplied. The presence or absence of 'ambition" does not account for wastage of almost a third of the potential undergraduate...
...Vandenberg has already ad dressed himself to the task of mobilizing congressional support for foreign economic policies which will implement U.S. political efforts. Senator Vandenberg's approach is realistic. He has cautioned that the U.S. is not rich enough to "become permanent almoner to the whole earth." That remark does not foreshadow a return to economic isolationism. Vandenberg well understands that the world's reconstruction needs may continue to call for U.S. sacrifices. Says he: "As much as anything, I am concerned about our own psychology, the continued reiteration of our congenital impatience...
...making people unhappy, but the latest tempest was a baffler. In Warsaw, reporters fought to see him to check up on something he had been heard to say. They finally won an audience. Declared Elliott: he had positively not given an interview. He had just made a conversational remark. What it was all about: he had said that he "liked Poland very much...