Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
Glimmering Opposition. Wallace picked up where Taylor left off. He also attacked Wall Street, the military leaders, U.S. policymakers. He blamed U.S. leaders for all the woes in the world. Never once did he criticize Russia. He suggested that the U.S. pull out of Berlin. "We can't lose anything by giving it up militarily in a search for peace." The trademark of Marcantonio & friends was stamped on every page of the text. Said Wallace: "We stand against the kings of privilege who own the old parties . . . [who] attempt to control our thoughts and dominate the life...
Pierre Dupong was fidgety. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was poised but gloomy as he gazed at an ornate gold clock on the wall which had stopped at 5 minutes past 2 nobody knew how long ago. The Berlin crisis had reminded everyone that it was later than they had thought...
Staring at a crucifix on the courtroom wall, the most hated man in Italy sat apparently unmoved last week while Roman spectators screamed and cursed...
...19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place for such things...