Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Jan. 31, you State that Marietta McGregor Payne, in announcing her candidacy for the Texas State Legislature, became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. For your information, I wish to state that in a contested election, held in October of 1942, I was elected to the State Legislature of Connecticut from the city of Bristol...
...what he calls the "ageless New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 21). Without pausing to aim his scatter-guns, Henry Wallace fired from both hips. Cried he: "Wall Street and the Wall Street stooges . . . [are] safely sitting on top of the country. . . . [But] the people can, at any time they wish, throw the American Fascists out of control. . . ." The temperate New York Times asked sharply: "Who are the 'stooges' of Wall Street? . . . Who are these American Fascists? If they exist, Mr. Wallace should present us with their names and with concrete evidence against them. . . . Perhaps he is merely throwing . . . reckless...
Like their neighbors in the Pacific states, British Columbians say now that they never want to see the Japs back on the Pacific Coast. Last week it looked as if their wish might come true. British Columbia's Premier John Hart said that the Dominion Government had purchased Japanese-owned land in the Fraser Valley...
describe their Government as a crocodile trying to look like a nice old man. "The vipers who are crawling on their bellies before Hitler, saying they wish to defend Finland as far east as Petrozavodsk [capital of the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic] may find the Red Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad...
...near the heart of it when he says, "Preston is like a man from the Italian Renaissance: he wants to do everything at once. If he could slow down, he would be great; he has an enormous gift and he should be one of our leading creators. I wish he would be a little more selfish and worry about his reputation...