Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio from London, Harold J. Laski, British Labor's left-wing philosopher, told the rally: "Our peoples didn't make the immense sacrifices of this war to perpetuate either a tyranny like that of Franco, or an unedifying mythology like a Vatican-sponsored King of Spain trying hastily to learn the vocabulary of the Four Freedoms while making it painfully evident that he finds no meaning in the words...
...American point of view was not presented at the rally by a State Department official, but by such left-wing spokesmen as Michael J. Quill, president of Manhattan's powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...
Wild Bill Donovan wanted the salvageable parts of this machine to get independent status, under the President. Last week he could settle for its peacetime placement beneath Jimmy Byrnes' wing. But his own reconversion to the law would seem prosaic...
General MacArthur had his say last week. It was about time. The left-wing U.S. press (abetted by odd allies such as the New York Herald Tribune) had been yelling its head off that he was giving Japan a "soft peace," that he was playing politics with Hirohito, that he was playing politics wih the U.S. voters, etc., etc. In a revealing question-&-answer session with U.P.'s smart President Hugh Baillie, the General answered a spate of home criticism and gave the best account yet of his plans and purposes in occupied Japan...
Strategic Bombing. As the battle lines were drawn last week, the U.A.W. lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...