Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numerous peeks behind the Iron Curtain, the most candid and observant was Sam Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative...
...Communists everywhere, the upset meant a frenzied scramble for a new pitch. The Moscow radio clapped a hand over its own mouth for more than 24 hours. Excited Communists in Frankfurt tacked up a candid sign on the door to their conference room: "Meeting scheduled for today has been postponed because of Truman's election." Explained a harassed party official: "We have suspended scheduled activities for today, awaiting new orders...
...American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced and simultaneous view of the U.S., British and Russian positions as events created and altered them; 3) a thoroughly documented look at the Big Three (F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin) in action, from...
...Murray, AEC Chairman David Lilienthal replied last week that refusal to take the oath was not the sole complaint; there was "a serious question" about loyalty. To Fitzgerald, Lilienthal said that AEC was ready to talk the issue over with U.E. leaders, but would demand "full and candid" statements on their past & present Communist affiliations, if any. At week's end, there was no answer from Fitzgerald. The blackball stood...
...Best." The Christian Century's candid, peppery Charles Clayton Morrison observed: "If he had lived, Archbishop Temple would have been undisputed head of the World Council, which now has six co-presidents. You see, it takes six of the best men to equal one Archbishop Temple...