Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued on a few million dollars' worth of rifles and knapsacks" instead of the treaty itself...
...since then the outlines of party purity have been blurred; in the matter of political spoils there are two schools of thought. One, led by bulky Bill Boyle, the Democrats' executive vice chairman, wants the rewards to go to the local leaders in each state who have been loyal through & through. The other is led by McGrath, who is worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President...
What the House heard was a complete denial by the Defense Secretary of any plan to transfer the Marine or naval aviators to any other service, i.e., the Air Force. He could not do it under law, he admitted, and there had been no thought of any such move anyhow. Said Johnson humbly: "I want you to know that before any step of this kind would be seriously considered, I should ask permission to discuss the matter before the committees of both houses of Congress...
...which had come his way since he began basking in the reflected warmth from the White House. Last week Luckey hinted strongly that Truman was distressed by the idea of Jimmy Roosevelt running for the office. George Luckey was undoubtedly distressed, too: he had been acting as though he thought George Luckey represented the type of Truman Democrat the state needed. It seemed certain that fur would fly before Luckey gave...
...problem facing the college critic of the Theater Workshop's productions of the last three years has been two-fold. First, he must search each time for new superlatives (for each show has been better than the last, thought the plays have not all been equal) and he must restrain himself in order to retain the reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied...