Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefinite general attitude, Mather declared that support of Wallace did not represent "the proper appraisal of the obvious debits alongside obvious assets"; "making almost certain victory of the most Republican of Republicans" against "laying the foundations for victory four years from now." He furthermore strongly disapproves of the Wallace stand on ERP, holding that one should "work to influence the details of its potentialities for tremendous progress." But he left open the possibility that he may vote for Wallace later...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...
Psychiatrist Leo Kanner used to stand up for parents. He championed them against the experts, said that it was unfair to blame the mother or father every time something went wrong with the child. Last week he told the American Ortho-psychiatric* Association in Manhattan about no parents whom he could not defend. He had examined their offspring at the children's psychiatric clinic which he heads at Johns Hopkins...
...Pasadena's Huntington Hotel, Taylor has lately been barnstorming the U.S. to rouse businessmen on a new phase of labor relations. Says Taylor: "When a man spends about one-half of his waking hours . . . [on a job] that is so routine and boring that he can hardly stand it ... where he has no real sense of contributing to the economic life of the community . . . he is very likely to become unhappy and dissatisfied...