Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer, the Army's mountain trooper sheds his skis and white suit-and his glamor. Then he looks like any other soldier except for a cocky ski cap, sole reminder of the days when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in the West, he plodded up a narrow mountain path, holding the bridle of an opinionated mule. The view he saw was mostly the rump of the mule ahead; the sounds he heard were the clip-clip-clop of mule hoofs, labored breathing, an occasional heavy stumble over stone...
...most striking implications are those affecting the line-up for the spotlights of 1944. President Roosevelt was an open supporter of Senator Mead; he now finds his leadership flatly repudiated. Today the New York machine belongs to Jim Farley and will be his sole property until well after the next Democratic National Convention. Any man controlling the New York bloc of delegates would carry weight in such a gathering, and Farley, with more friends than any other man since Mark Hanna, may find himself in complete control. The combination of a Roosevelt-hating Farley and a Labor-baiting Southern bloc...
...said the Mail. "Gandhi, Azad and Nehru . . . are now in jail. . . . They should have been there years ago. . . . From now on we should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that he and his party shall profit from the war, whichever side wins . . . the nauseating hypocrisy of the saintly humbug...
...sole possessor or possessors of military air power could stop anyone from going to war. And international action to enforce peace would be enormously simplified...
...found a Labor vote cracking back at his pronounced and announced opposition to both C.I.O. and A.F. of L. wartime activities. The skimpy 20% vote which turned out at the polls was a highly organized one and one which remembered only too clearly that Mr. Faddis had been the sole local lawmaker to vote for the Smith Anti-Strike Bill...