Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today. I know the New Deal and the Fair Deal have done more for the South than any other national administration in ... history." He talked of new factories, rehabilitated farms, the blessing of rural electricity, of new homes and healthy children. "Remember . . . this year when you see & hear the storm of political propaganda that will [be used] to try to turn back the clock." He spoke four times during the day and flew back to Washington...
...Brewing Storm. Matthews is the son of a Kimberley diamond digger who named him for an Old Testament prophet. He was brought up in Christian mission schools, proved a brilliant student, and won a chance to study at Yale and the London School of Economics. In 1935 he settled down to his career as professor of native law and anthropology at the Negro college at Fort Hare, in the Cape Province. Full of his Christian-mission teachings, Matthews devoted himself to the gradual improvement of the lot of the black man. He spoke as a moderate. While others were making...
...Matthews warned the whites that a storm was brewing. He was ignored. The South African government's African Representative Council, in which he took an active part, was never heeded. Said a more militant Negro, scathingly: "The council is a toy telephone. Matthews and the other members speak into it, but it ends there. The whites aren't listening...
...thing, asking MacArthur to give up pay, earned in heroic service, would raise a storm of protest from his admirers. For another, trying to get him out of uniform against his will would be troublesome. On top of all that, President Truman made it obvious at his press conference last week that he was delighted at the spectacle of the Republican generals squabbling among themselves, in or out of uniform, and would do nothing to head them...
...little relief from all these pressures was the arrival in Cambridge of Paul Whiteman, straight from a successful European tour. "American jazz," declared Whiteman, "has taken Europe by storm." Admiral Byrd, conqueror of the South Pole, told an enthusiastic audience that airplanes were the hope of the future...