Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fine Figure of a Man. The blue and honest Bricker eye, the hearty Bricker handshake, and most of all, the deep Bricker platform voice, full of enthusiasm, platitudes and love of his fellow man, stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front...
...commodity at home not on the ration list. Circulars disseminated by this forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...
...president of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Wallace B. Phillips, returned to Manhattan last month to plead that the U.S. understand why Great Britain must continue the policy of "Empire preference" in her trade after the war. The short, chubby head of Pyrene Co., Ltd. thus gave many a U.S. citizen his first clear glimpse of Britain's major postwar industrial problem: how to in crease exports at least 50% above pre war levels...
...channels of international communication were long used systematically and usually clandestinely, not to make people know and understand but to make them fear and hate the peoples of other nations...
...must realize the tremendous pull of the Communist Party here, which combines the enormous prestige of Red Army victories with a safe, nonrevolutionary, liberal social program. To understand what it is like here, remember New York during the Popular Front period, only it is naturally infinitely more so here. Picasso is only following a mass trend...