Word: taint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managing editor of Tokyo Asahi is Makoto Takano, 47, who was free of any war-party taint. Meticulous and scholarly, Editor Takano landed a job with Asahi in 1929 by winning a competitive examination for graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. He recently spent three months in the U.S. as the guest of the New York Times...
...have all seen how early, and frequently inferior, films in which one of this year's winners has appeared, have been brought back for re-showing with a conspicuous "Oscar" in all the advertisements. I would not mind this retroactivity in the publicity men except for the yellow taint of dishonest advertising which I can clearly...
...Hausleiter, a leading Bavarian Christian Democrat, who has just founded Germany's newest political movement, the nationalist "German Union." Hausleiter and his friends call for a "neutralization" of Germany between East and West, evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann's face. They are bringing Karl Radek...
This would prevent critical stoppages, remove the taint of polities which now rests on the injunction and presidential rulings, and encourage collective bargaining by bringing the parties into the glare of a public show-cause hearing. It would also offer labor and management the chance to learn that although compromises please no one, both sides can live under them, and it might slowly restore faith in the bargaining process...
...What Lies Ahead?" From the moment he began, Tom Dewey made it clear that the Republican Party had rid itself for keeps of the old taint of isolationism. He spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...