Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Democrats believed that the best course was a passive one-that if the party punted and prayed for two years the Republican Congress might become a target for the voter's ill will. But how could Henry Wallace be kept quiet? And what was to be done with Harry Truman at the end of the two years...
Stern's papers were target No. 2 in the Guild's national campaign to get $100 a week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild...
...Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
...Johnson went to Fisk as head of social studies. With an interracial team of experts, he has studied such race-strained cities as San Francisco, Detroit, St. Louis and New Orleans. Next target: Minneapolis. He was U.S. delegate on the League of Nations Commission on Liberia, which helped abolish slavery in the African republic...
Beware the Weak. Malaparte says he dined with German Governor General Hans Frank at his Warsaw palace, heard him extol German Kultur, play Chopin with delicacy, later that same night saw him use a live child for target practice while the women of the party giggled. Says Malaparte: "In no part of Europe had the Germans appeared to me so naked, so exposed as in Poland. In the course of my long war experience, the conviction had grown within me that...