Word: roader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb. The bomber: John L. Lewis' general counsel and right-hand man, onetime Wall Street law cub, later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across the banquet table at middle-of-the-roader Lubin, Pressman told the New Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share of mounting defense profits too. His explanation of the recent...
...Traitors!" What made the 534-to-0 Chamber vote additionally significant was that it came last week after Middle-of-the-Roader Edouard Daladier had taken overt steps presaging a French diplomatic break with the Soviet Union. Some 100 Paris police swooped down to raid the Soviet Trade Delegation, broke open its safes and files, seized incriminating papers. When Soviet Ambassador Jacob Suritz angrily protested, demanding release of several arrested Soviet clerks, his demand was flatly rejected. Home from Moscow to Paris, ostensibly on sick leave, hustled French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. With the certainty that Great Britain and France...