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Perhaps because the public remembered his own past willingness to run, perhaps for other reasons, the MacArthur thrust failed to create any great stir. Among the great man's well-deserved laurels nestled a bunch of slightly sour grapes...
Murray hit the convention's mood with his opening speech. "When all of the legalistic aspects are thrust aside," he cried, "eventually an agreement has to be arrived at, because whatever the courts may have to do with respect to your bread & butter . . . you and the industry will have to settle that when the courts are through . . ." Flushed and angry, Murray reviewed the dispute and its bitter stalemate. "We can't get collective bargaining in the U.S. today," he said, "and the President says you can't strike because you will injure our national defense effort. Well...
Tobin stepped up to the platform. In a business like tone, he listed the work he had done for the old club and for the state machine. Suddenly, Tobin thrust has head toward the audience. "I can state in all modesty," he declared, "that anything constructive that was done in the old club was my doing." The partyliners nodded. "I arranged to have Eleanor Roosevelt and Dever come here; the president vetoed it. I arranged for the Club to have a five-room office in the state department; the president vetoed it. Finally, I just stopped trying...
...event of war, the main Russian thrust will probably be directed against the N.A.T.O. forces at the Rhine line. Smaller forces will be thrown against Finland, and the satellite armies of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, backed up by Red Army regulars, will descend on Yugoslavia...
...soldier who has proved himself a fine field commander. Propelled overnight into command of the U.S. Eighth Army during Korea's darker days, he converted the retreating Eighth into what has been called the finest army ever fielded by the U.S. Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur thrust Ridgway up suddenly as supreme commander in Japan. In the waning final year of the occupation, he has proved capable of tact and diplomacy (although given to bursts of temper), and has dutifully left most of the big decision making to Washington...