Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christian Nationalist: for President, Gerald L. K. Smith, 50, rabble-rousing, race-baiting ex-preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews...
...sullen silence. State authorities had ducked the segregation issue by decreeing that the Wallace gatherings were "private parties," to which the state segregation law does not apply. No bands turned out, no crowds gathered to watch his progress. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's John Chabot Smith: "Mr. Wallace's movements in Virginia had something of the eerie quality of an old-fashioned silent movie in a theater without a piano player...
Into the Kremlin again went the three men from the West-Walter Bedell Smith of the U.S., Frank Roberts of Britain and Yves Chataigneau of France. They had agreed beforehand on a new proposal for "settling" the Berlin crisis. Smith had their plan in his briefcase. Stalin greeted them genially. Before Smith had a chance to open his case, Stalin said: "Gentlemen, I have a plan. Here it is. I believe you will find it acceptable to your governments." Stalin's plan was almost identical with the one Smith carried. The Russians and the West had reached an agreement...
Barbed Fishhooks. Smith's first impulse was to tell Stalin he had a deal. Thirty months in Moscow, however, has taught Smith caution. He told Stalin that he and his colleagues would cable the proposal to their governments. In Washington, experts sat up all night prodding at the Russian text in search of diplomatic booby traps, found none they considered lethal. They cabled Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists...
...Stephen Potter, is an Englishman who insists that he learned "gamesmanship" as late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...