Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Real Culprits. The case for support was made before the American Bankers Association last week in Detroit by its former president, Frank C. Rathje, of Chicago's Mutual National Bank. Dropping the peg, he said, might well "provoke a storm." The real inflationary culprits, charged Rathje, were not the banks, but the non-bank lending agencies, primarily the insurance companies...
...Maurice Sterne's Approaching Storm and William Thon's Life Saving Station looked bigger than they actually were. Each was a first-rate example of a kind of impressionism U.S. painters seem to excel at-somber, broadly painted pictures of nature in turmoil...
Above the Storm. As a party spokesman, Warren early took his stand with the progressive Republicans-the Deweys, the Stassens and the Vandenbergs, against the Old Guard-the Tabers, the Hallecks, the Martins and the Tafts. He came out strongly for U.N., for the full Marshall Plan appropriations, for universal military training. He has always been an ardent exponent of public power and reclamation projects for the West, of a permanent FEPC, of government assistance for private housing...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
...Violent dissension followed as a result of agitation against Jaffa from several delegations. He has made a definite issue of alleged Communist connections of certain active NSA members in these delegations and had consequently become a storm center...