Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Johnstone McMurray, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, who beat Republican Isolationist Lewis D. Thill in a Milwaukee German district which sent Socialist Victor L. Berger to Congress in 1918 as an anti-war representative. Son of a Baptist preacher, short, sturdy Democrat Howard McMurray, 41, is a licensed pilot, onetime Interstate Airlines operations and sales manager, onetime insurance statistician. Socialite women worked in his campaign headquarters, labor leaders supported him on the radio. His platform: post-war internationalism...
...that may have sent a cold chill down the spines of the German people, who remember well and bitterly the end of the last war-when German generals appealed for peace while the Kaiser abandoned Germany to her fate. Said Hitler: "This Army is becoming more and more National-Socialist. . . . More and more differences are being eliminated. . . . In me [our enemies] have an adversary who does not even think of capitulation. At the head of this nation today there does not stand a man who would ever think of going abroad in critical times . . . but one who has always known...
Scrappy, invective-loving, democratic Swiss editors had long been soft-voiced when speaking of their powerful, threatening neighbor. Now they were soft-voiced no longer. In the bluntest language printed on the European continent in months, the Neue Berner Zeitung declared: "The National Socialist conception of a new European order is absolutely incompatible with the freedom of Europe's states and peoples...
...role (e.g., Ben Franklin, Woodrow Wilson). Its texts include such original documents as the Resolves of the First Continental Congress and John Dickinson's Letters of a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Unusually sophisticated for undergraduates, it requires students to read such authors as French Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, British Socialist Harold Laski, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Machiavelli...
Author Thurber sought refuge in France just before the downfall. (He made his first mistake by giving "a book on government by M. Léon Blum [former Socialist Premier now imprisoned at Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees] ... to a French steward on the Ile de France, who turned out to be a Royalist.") He also made the mistake of getting a phrase book to use in France. "Each page has a list of English expressions [with] French translations . . . alongside." Author Thurber learned to say: "I have left my glasses (my watch) (a ring) in the lavatory." In moments...