Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...blocked by congressional inaction, could only mark time. The bocce players, in their quiet corner, looked safe at least through the summer and fall...
Premier Wong was also faced by Red pressure in supposedly "safe" areas. In Shanghai, Communists gleefully helped widen a split in U.S.-Chinese relations-capitalizing on Chinese fears of a revived Japan, they sparked student demonstrations against...
...stop building telescopes? Do we forbid the extension of knowledge? Do we retreat to some safe, underground existence where we can barricade ourselves against our fears and the unwelcome intrusion of new ideas...
...article on the U.S. power shortage (Our Lights Are Going Out) that brought complaints from General Electric and power companies. Fontaine had thought that Cottier's should have some of its old crusading spirit. The brass favored the editorial line of least resistance (Collier's safe-&-sane editorials are still the spare-time work, but not always the echo, of the New York Daily News's Reuben Maury...