Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conquer the Unconquerable Sir: Just finished reading "Twilight Existence" (TIME, July 28), in which the mother of a feeble-minded child expresses a wish that euthanasia may be legally extended to cover the slaughter of feeble-minded and so-called hopelessly deformed children. . . . Euthanasia is not the solution for this problem...
...CONVERSATION MR. SAM WELLES HAD WITH ME DURING HIS RECENT STAY IN WARSAW. BEING MYSELF A JOURNALIST, I HAVE TO EXPRESS MY AMAZEMENT AT THIS ARTICLE, WHICH MUST BE CONSIDERED AS AN INTERVIEW PRINTED WITHOUT MY PREVIOUS CONSENT. IN CONSEQUENCE THERE ARE MANY DISCREPANCIES AND MISTAKES WHICH I HEREBY WISH TO CORRECT...
...making a movie for Paramount." Paramount is making a picture with the background of West Point, tentatively entitled The Long Grey Line, but Blanchard and Davis aren't in it. I believe they are in Hollywood working for another producer. They're good guys and we wish them luck...
Concluded Taft: "If the people want a definite end to overgrown bureaucracy, overgrown spending, overgrown taxing, and overgrown regulation of everybody-all abuses of the New Deal; if they wish a return to the common-sense American method of handling our problems of regulation and social welfare, and our foreign policy, within the principles of American government, they can only reach that end by electing a Republican President in 1948-and they will...
Amid the usual platitudes of an A.S.N.E. convention, Harry Ashmore's candor was refreshing. Oveta Gulp Hobby, wartime head of the WAC and executive editor of the Houston Post, turned to another editor and murmured: "I wish we had him on our staff." There were others who felt the same way. Soon Ashmore got flattering job offers from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette...