Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself against opponents even more formidable than Milton Berle -Darwin, Freud, Marx and Satan. He gives hell to democrats for not being democratic, to capitalists for being greedy, to all the West for giving Communism an opening by not living up to its own Christian faith. He has harangued statesmen about war & peace and young brides about their sex life. He has announced that he prays every morning for Joseph Stalin, and he has approvingly quoted a heretic (Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) on the Catholic Hour. His influence as a preacher is incalculably great...
Pretty Harsh Things. If statesmen should be tried retroactively for their past mistakes, and perhaps shot-they are, in other countries-Mrs. Roosevelt should certainly not get off scot free. As the semiofficial advance woman for the New Deal, she consorted with Communists, she was an enthusiastic member of many Communist-steered organizations, for years she must have been regarded by the Communists as one of their most prominent and influential cat's-paws...
...Franco, suggested that her country's diplomatic corps needs a woman's touch: "I would not be surprised if Stalin's trouble is the lack of feminine influence over him. I think a woman might be able to accomplish far more with him than the Western statesmen have been able to do. I wish I could be Spanish Ambassador in Moscow . . . If I were Spanish envoy in the United States, I would go fishing with President Truman...
...nine, Rodell had praise for Justices Black and Douglas, whom he termed "the Court's only first class judicial statesmen." But he labelled Justice Frankfurter "the Emily Post of the Supreme Court" because of his "fetish for procedural issues" and opined-that "any student on the Harvard Law Review would make a better justice than Justice Burton...
...vehemently for both a graduated income tax and a graduated inheritance tax. The Democrats were jubilant and applauded hilariously, while the smiles froze on the faces of the Republicans . . . The President seemed to be delighted with the sensation he had created and the consternation he had wrought among Republican statesmen. Their curses on him for that speech were not only deep, but loud...