Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press. Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested that the motive was simply robbery (the thugs took $40 from McCabe but left his expensive watch...
Nobody knows better than Stalin that the U.S. drop-the-bomb talk is mere "sentiment," an outgrowth of political prudery that refuses to face the facts of politics. In This Week Cartoonist Ray Helle neatly ticked it off with this sentiment: two parrots are sitting on a perch; behind them is a cat; says one parrot to the other, "Stop worrying about the atom bomb and keep your...
...split was seen last night as the outgrowth of the Boston group's opposition to UMT as an arm of the "bi-partisan foreign policy." the NCAC supports the Administration's foreign policy and opposes UMT because of the "dangers to democracy" which it presents...
...group is an outgrowth of the Steering Committee of the Seminar, formed last September to supervise the project during the winter and spring organizational periods. Peirce, as chairman, will serve as assistant to Clemens Heller 1G, who heads the steering committee and is executive secretary of the overall Seminar endeavor...
Spokesmen for the organizing executive disclosed last night that the embryonic group was the outgrowth of informal discussion with Robert Kenney, who handled Henry A. Wallace's press relations during his appearance here for the A.V.C...