Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These bold words were long overdue, but still they would not fill French bellies. Perhaps an even better (and more belated) campaign argument was the billion-dollar U.S. loan that Socialist Léon Blum was bringing back from Washington after ten weeks of negotiation and 21 months of liberation...
...style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
...vote the straight Republican ticket. Today's Sun editorials, like last week's on Truman, are plotted by Speed, General Manager Edwin S. Friendly and James Craig, chief editorial writer. Young (35) President-Publisher Thomas Dewart, who inherited the paper, sits in at times. There is little argument at their conferences. "We all think alike, so it's easy," says Keats Speed...
...longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid a few flowers...
...contemporary scene. A score of times his tuneful wit (needling Tojo for wordy communiques, the Zaibatsu for war profiteering in Manchuria, etc.) has landed him in jail. Last month it Landed him in Japan's new Diet, as the head of his own one-candidate Japan Fair Argument Party. Last week a song got him in trouble again...