Word: uprootedness
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FRED MARSHALL, 42, a lean, hard-muscled farmer, uprooted Minnesota's stubborn Harold Knutson, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, whose 32 years in Congress had lulled him into thinking he could never be beaten. Marshall, who had been Minnesota's Farm Security administrator for six years, picked...
This week anti-Communists in New York decided to try the same maneuver. They would apply to the C.I.O. for a charter aimed at supplanting the Greater New York C.I.O. Council. No one doubted that there would be many more such skirmishes before the battle was over. In the early...
The Uprooted Ones. The guerrillas who were keeping Greece in turmoil, though supported by the Muscovite, were not waiting for Moscow to send Russian troops to do their work. With far less aid than the Greek government had from the U.S., they had not only held out in their crags...
Their leader, appropriately, was an uprooted soul. Lean, sinewy Markos Vafiades, like many other Greek Communists, was a refugee from Turkey. In 1922, he was caught up in that melancholy trek to his Greek "homeland" where he had no home, known as the "exchange of populations" after the Greco-Turkish...
But it was his post-reception speech, delivered before 500 Bloomingtonians at a dinner in the Illinois Hotel, that made his fellow Democrats jump with joy. The speech was sometimes folksy (with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green...