Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Postwar Jobs. Here Dewey's point of view is basically distinct from that of the New Deal. He stands for an end to Government hostility toward business. He stands for giving private enterprise the chance to create all possible jobs, and for moving in with Government-made work (the PWA kind rather than WPA leaf-raking)-but only to buttress the job-creating activity of the citizens themselves. Most importantly, he rejects the New Deal premise that the days of economic progress for America are finished...
...find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...
Although 140 men are expected, the size of the new class will be very indefinite until its members have arrived, and no definite estimate can be given. I view of the unstable conditions, chiefly the larger number than expected of returning upperclassmen planning to live in the Houses, College officials seen pleased at the new arrangement which will permit the Freshmen to live together in their own quarters and still retain connection with House activities through the eating plan...
...soft" disclaimer. He attacked Earl Browder - "now such a patriot" -as a man "convicted as a draft dodger in the last war, convicted again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term." Then Tom Dewey explained why, in his view, the Communists are supporting Mr. Roosevelt. He dug up a quotation from a memorandum written by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939: "Over a period of years the Government will gradually come to own most of the productive plants in the United States...
...Carthaginians, in the Roman view, were treacherous fellows. "Punica fides" ("Punic faith") became Latin for double-dealing...