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...Communist Daily Worker ran the whole range all by itself. In seven successive daily editorials, it did a complete backward somersault and ended party-side up. No. 1 : "Wallace repeated the major fallacies advanced by most apologists for American imperialism. . . ." No. 3 : "He did say a lot of good things in his speech. . . " No. 5: "Mr. Wallace has correctly sensed the mood of our people." No. 7: Hallelujah, comrades...
...holds the sole patent on liberalism. The delegates, most of whom went to Albany in a nervous chill of defeatism, were warmed by the appearance of Eleanor Roosevelt as keynoter, gave her an affectionate ovation, cheered her as she struck another campaign chord: the G.O.P. is the party of "backward conservatives...
...Father said slowly, 'it is along in here somewhere that there is likely to be some disagreement between you, Winston, and me. I believe that if we are to arrive at a stable peace it must involve the development of backward countries...
...backward look by the Bureau of Labor Statistics etched the meaning of a trend of little boosts. The pre-wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes...
...Only in backward countries such as Paraguay and Bolivia, where illiteracy and disease abound, does one find true dictatorships today," he asserted in contradicting the popular notions prevalent among northern peoples...