Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
...believe that England is going through a collapse which is one of the most subtle tragedies of our time, but the courage of the English, sensing full well the shape and extent of the collapse, is awe-inspiring. My article was not designed to offend a worried and overworked host, but to entertain...
Later, in the well-packed auditorium, Harry Truman began in his best cracker-barrel manner. The last time he had been in St. Paul (a month before election) "was quite a time," said Truman. "Didn't anybody think I'd be back here addressing you within one year from that Election Day as President of the United States. But here...
...Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel any C.I.O. union from the parent...
...quiet, brilliant Admiral Forrest P. Sherman (TIME, Nov. 7) could not conquer telltale signs of strain and emotion. His voice was firm as he vowed to defend the country against "all enemies, foreign or domestic . . ." But as the ceremony went on, in Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews' big, well-furnished office, he seemed almost on the verge of breaking down...