Word: whited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Profitable Failure. Politically, the White House inner operatives thought they could make as much capital out of some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost...
...drill night last week, 50 white-helmeted MPs came roaring onto the Capitol grounds in a line of bouncing, skidding jeeps. Luckily for all concerned, Congress had gone home for the day. Most of the guardsmen ran off into the bushes with waving pistols and carbines, yelling "Take cover!" But a few drivers kept their jeeps snarling in circles. Other MPs ran to the Capitol steps and set up a light machine...
...Honest to God," he said afterward, "I hadn't the least idea of what was coming off. I snuggles down in the bushes and takes out my roscoe. I swear if one of them had got between me and the white steps, so's I could have a good target, I'd have let him have...
...seemed high time for something sterner to be done. White House newsmen wondered whether President Truman was considering federal seizure of the mines or steel mills. No, the President told his news conference firmly, he had no such plans. "Have you any plans for intervention of any sort?" someone asked. No, said Mr. Truman, he had not. There was still a chance that federal mediation would do the trick, he said. If not, he added vaguely, the Government would go on from there...
Every day during the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty (TIME, Feb. 14 et seq.), a dapper, trimly uniformed officer, with a slightly dreamy look in his eyes and spotless white gloves on his hands, sat at the defendant's right. Every day as the session opened, the officer stopped before the judges' bench and formally reported that the accused was present in the court. Last week, Lieutenant of Prison Guards Imre Szipzr, 32, warden of the Marko Street House of Detention in Budapest, was himself in the prisoner's dock before a Budapest criminal court...