Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor dream of "one big union" appeared to have vanished for good last week. In a tart letter to top A.F. of L. chieftains, C.I.O. President Philip Murray announced that the vision had fled. Said Murray...
...gossamer Christmas vision tantalized Canadian women. Real full-fashioned silk stockings, said Ottawa newspapers, might be on the store shelves before Christmas. A shipment of silk hose was coming from Brazil. But the stockings would be expensive, could not be sold unless Canada's tough Price Controller Donald Gordon gave permission to lift the price ceiling...
...befuddle men's minds; but a churchman of such prominence as Dean Inge should always retain a clear vision and unbiased judgment...
...Henry Wallace predicted that Mr. Roosevelt would win by a popular majority of three million votes and would carry three-fourths of the states. Say what one will about a visionary, at least he has vision. Of course someone occasionally fills an inside royal straight flush; the fact remains, the crackpot won the jackpot...
...measure? He is modest, honest, healthy, simple, kindly, straightforward, with a pleasant sense of humor, the average level of Congressional intelligence-which is higher than U.S. voters often think. His defects are lacks: he is obviously not a man whose nobility of purpose, splendid idealism or farsighted vision of the American destiny has ever stirred or could ever stir the country. He is not known as the sponsor of any legislation of importance, let alone of any profound or seriously progressive measures; he has never notably participated in debate on taxes or economic measures. He is a small-town politician...