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Averell Harriman might have been playing coy and waiting for the New York Democrats to draft him; on the other hand, he may be betting on a Stevenson victory and an appointment as Secretary of State. In any case, by sitting back and letting John Cashmore snatch the senatorial nomination, Harriman assured Irving M. Ives, the incumbent, of a victory. For, during the past six years, Ives, a strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have...
...Harvard class of 1936 watches TV all the time. We buy no books, but 43% of us (the figure, if not accurate, is curious) snatch the comics from our children. Speaking of offspring, we have had 1,365 of them. Of these, 52% are children. Of the remaining offspring, who are not children, 90% plan to go to Yale...
...Nationalism is my banner," says Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. "No one shall ever snatch it away from me." Last week it was plain that Vargas' nationalism is plunging Brazil ever deeper into an international-trade crisis...
This, however, is a question of evidence (not of principle) that may be hard to establish, especially before professional politicians, who are inclined to look askance at efforts of "interlopers" to snatch their organizations. Add to that difficulty the fact that Taft forces will probably control the convention's Credentials Committee, and the Taft position appears a formidable one. Maybe Lodge has enough evidence and enough votes to win a credentials fight on the convention floor-and maybe he hasn...
...night of April 4, a company-sized (120 men) patrol from the U.S. 45th Division ran into three platoons of Chinese. Both patrols had the same purpose: to snatch an enemy soldier or two for the intelligence officers to question. The ensuing skirmish was typical of dozens during the so-called "lull," which has cost the U.S. 200 to 250 casualties a week. The Eighth Army's Communique No. 938 reported it this way: "A U.N. patrol operating west of Chorwon engaged three enemy platoons at 2215 (10:15 p.m.), directed artillery and mortar fire on the enemy...