Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Florida, an almost forgotten voice tried to be heard: Edward J. Flynn, the Democratic National Committee's former chairman, protested that the Republicans had broken a promise to maintain a political truce for the duration. "The Democratic Party has lived up to this [promise]," said bewildered Mr. Flynn...
...truce was in sight. Best hope for a compromise came on the subsidy issue. Oklahoma's able, shock-haired Mike Monroney proposed an amendment (which showed surprising strength in a House vote) to continue subsidies until Oct. 1, 1944, and to make them revocable at any earlier time at the first sign of a general wage increase. Mike Monroney's solution may yet be adopted. It had virtues: 1) it would tie farm prices and wages together; 2) it would put the subsidy issue squarely into the 1944 campaign, where both Congress and the Administration seem to think...
...first half, the offside shift was one of the Harvard's most consistent ground-gainers in the second, when Wally Trumbull called it four times. Lew Manly, the Tufts coach, was so impressed by this that he asked Henry Lamar at the football writers' luncheon yesterday to call a truce on the play, thereby disclosing the fact that the Jumbos will use some variation of it on Saturday. Mr. Lamar declined...
...sure thing in next week's election. Dewey had his three investigations going full blast, had blocked the O'Connell grand jury, at least temporarily, with a court order. Albany had not seen such bitter fighting in years. Said one politico: "There ought to be a truce to exchange prisoners...
Mackenzie King and his Liberal Party leaders studied this worrisome situation at their first wartime caucus in Ottawa. The Prime Minister was bellicose; he roundly castigated his opponents, declared against a general election for the duration, but left himself room to call a quick one if expedient. The party truce was off; from now on, it would be Politics Unlimited...