Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis. At the Mayflower, Opera Singer...
Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...
Varsity fencers stand a good chance of slicing the tail off the Tiger when they cross swords with Princeton today at 2:30 o'clock in the Blockhouse...
Bonnet concluded by affirming that developments within Czechoslovakia will have no direct effect on French politics. "We stand with the U. S. and Britain in opposing the new disguised dictatorship," he stated...
Viewing the European Recovery Program as "an extension of the Truman doctrine" the Harvard Committee for Wallace last night criticized the Committee to Save the Marshall Plan stand as "ineffectual...