Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman threw the whole ball of fat into the fire. With a 5,500-word message which left no doubts as to which side he had picked, he vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Harry Truman had chosen the Left side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line...
...that when Bayside (and Mecca, too) are dust, that will be the thing Arabian shepherds will remember as they watch their lean flocks; it is the word a prince brought back from a teacher beyond...
Applied to India, that meant to Gandhi that people could not be pure in thought, word and deed unless they were their own masters. So he began to work for Indian independence. He found India's "struggle" for independence in the hands of a few well-educated Indians. The Indian National Congress,* was a polite debating society, pledged to win dominion status for India by "legitimate" means. Gandhi converted it into a mass movement. Indian peasants did not worry about independence until Gandhi told them...
...English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed plot, which has not an irrelevant word or clue...
...Word of his appointment to a 19-man bi-partisan citizen's committee, one of three groups named by President Truman over the weekend to study America's ability to assist European recovery, finally caught up with Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics, late yesterday...