Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West is dealing with too many rightist governments even now--a fact that gives the Communists excellent propaganda. And de Gaulle's leadership would be highly nationalist, to the detriment of Western cooperation on both economic and military planes...
Professor Cross was a native of Westerly, R.I. He received his M.A. in 1915, and his Ph.D. in 1916. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he taught at Western Reserve University, Georgetown University, and Tufts. He served overseas during World War I and was detailed for a time to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. In the early '20s, he served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium...
...Since Brown's last few games have been relative pushovers (Connecticut 49-6 Western Reserve 36-0), the squad has town little or no passing attack. Consequently, the Crimson has no accurate knowledge as to just how accurate highly touted passer Ed Finn...
...Coach Elmer Madar, who has scouted Brown in its last three outings against Connecticut, Rutgers, and Western Reserve, ranked the Bruins on a par with Dartmouth and reported that its line was bigger than Harvard's and faster than the Holy Cross forward wall. Finn, brother of Harvard's 1947 game captain and guard Jim Feinberg, did not have to take to the air except against Rutgers, and then his passing was impressive...
More important, however, than this is the effect of the election on the political orientation in western Europe. Although this is largely guess work, I would fear that the Republicans would view, with more equanimity than our present administration is likely to do, the emergence to power of de Gaulle in France and of similar political forces in other countries. The Truman administration may, with some justice, be characterized as a Liberal-Labor Government. As such its influence in western Europe will probably be thrown in directions favored by the Labor and Liberal Governments of Britain and the Scandinavian countries...