Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Professor Taylor observed of isolationists that "they believed that we must choose between the risks of total isolation in a world of dictators and the risks involved in giving major aid to the British Commonwealth of Nations, the one remaining democratic force that stands between us and fascism. Either course risks war," he observed...
...fast right to a Detroit heckler's nose this week, stumped mightily for the President: "If Wendell Willkie is a businessman, I am Mercury. . . . [Willkie is] a promoter par excellence, a ballyhoo artist . . . but unreliable and uninformed and with absolutely no business background. . . . While Wendell Willkie was plugging Commonwealth & Southern, President Roosevelt was building the soundest defense for this country...
Gradually his belief in independence began to take a political turn. For him, the cause of Commonwealth & Southern be came the cause of business against Government, then the cause of the people against the New Deal, and finally, the cause of democracy and freedom against all collectivism and totalitarianism. His progress was simple and definite: at the time of the Philadelphia Convention, Wendell Willkie had more friends for his ideas in the U. S. than Republican wardheelers could conceive. For what has been generally termed the miracle of Philadelphia was a miracle only in this sense: that a widely held...
...cast a respectable protest vote against the cacophonies of conscription and capitalism. Their candidate for President: persistent, patient Norman Mattoon Thomas, who, seeing the U. S. drifting into "imperialism abroad and fascism at home," declared: "The only opportunity for escape is a change of the people towards a cooperative commonwealth with machinery harnessed to overcome poverty, and not for the use of militarism." For Vice President: Maynard C. Krueger, University of Chicago economist...
...Hall for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats...