Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often for the vice-presidency. An internationalist long before Pearl Harbor, Saltonstall was a Willkie man in 1940. Now he is cautiously neutral, and will go to the G.O.P. convention unpledged. He well knows that if either Willkie or Dewey-both New Yorkers-gets the nomination, they will likely seek as a running mate a Westerner such as California's Governor Earl Warren. Saltonstall's only avowed candidacy is for the U.S. Senate, for the seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who is off at the war. (Saltonstall's '14 friend, Sinclair Weeks, was handpicked...
...battles now being fought over Germany are aimed to destroy Nazi fighter plane strength and production. . . . [That] is sought so that when Allied ground and air forces seek to force a further foothold on continental Europe they will have to contend ultimately with the German ground force, not with the German ground and air forces...
Vainly did effervescent Lady Astor seek to settle things. Why not, she asked, let the House vote on teachers' pay without involving the question of confidence in the Government? Other members echoed her plea. But Minister Butler, pale and impatient, roughly retorted: "Childish. ... I am here to give a lead. ... I must put myself and the Government in the hands of the House...
...obsolescence had already set in. Only after persistent pressure from U.S. authorities did Pan Am institute improvements such as night flying, which domestic lines had begun years earlier. As for Juan Trippe: he "desires all the advantages of the private-enterprise system and none of its disadvantages. ... He would seek Government support and subsidy for his private air transport monopoly . . . permitting him to suppress commercial competitors in the field and yet hold the system under private commercial control...
...President's decision to seek Term III ("the Term of Appeasement") Senator Johnson called "the greatest tragedy of American political history." If Term IV materializes, he predicted, it will be known in history as "the Term of Defeat and Frustration." The once great and powerful Democratic Party, he cried, has been reduced by "one-man control" to "hopeless impotency." "It no longer has the inclination or the will to resist those who would rape it. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic. One man will name its candidate for President, its candidate for Vice President, and write its platform...