Word: coming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down this morning at 7:25 a.m. He went for his constitutional walk at 7:30 a.m.: . . was back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...
...mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where all political signals come in loud and clear while Harry Truman is in residence, the President told close friends he thought Ike was 1) a wonderful general 2) an amateur politician building hard toward the 1952 presidential race...
...city doesn't stop football games, do they, just because of the crowds and the noise?" cried Homer. "The people that come to see our scene just stand there quiet and reverent and they don't drink or shout." The city gave up. Said Mayor Wallace Savage: "We can't just pass a law to stop it. Many people would think we were being antireligious...
...East Cominform. "An unpleasant shape of things to come in Chinese foreign policy is ... gradually emerging . . . The Peking conference of Asian and Australasian trade unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East...
...with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...