Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a weekend of sustained government crisis, Gottwald acted. Police of Communist Vaclav Nosek's Interior Ministry, armed with tommy guns and bayoneted rifles, surrounded most government offices and the Prague radio station. The Czech radio announced that the border was closed to all except those with new police visas on their passports...
...however, one other distinction novel in a Taoiseach: he was a keen weekend golfer (averaging 85-90) at the Dublin Club, Eire's St. Andrews...
Fresh from its first national convention in Philadelphia last weekend with a politically significant leadership embracing U. S. labor's bulk strength, Americans for Democratic Action discovers that it stands in a necessarily frustrated position for a year of electioneering. In 1948 the "third force" has little choice but to support Harry Truman...
...political element in America can start to match the election-year discomfiture of Americans for Democratic Action. At its showy first formal national convention last weekend in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ADA unanimously agreed that it was rebellious toward the Republicans, wrathful to the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace, and coolly critical of Truman's record. Both members and leaders called themselves "the third force" in civilization, rejecting the status quo of the Right and the worldwide totalitarian program of the Communist Left. Every-where it is the third force which finds itself today between the devil...
...long and intent looks from columnists and party bigwigs for the first time last weekend only because it showed that the organized third force in the United States was more now than a collection of the traditional parlor liberals talking to themselves...