Word: generally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Franco, who, since 1936, has been saying . . . that Communism is the foe of Christianity and civilization...
...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...
...General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower last week was in Texas for a "social" visit. Before it was over, he had dined in high privacy with San Antonio's wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again at the philosophy and practice of the welfare state. To reporters he unblinkingly declaimed: "I don't want a thing to do with politics-but that does not mean that I won't comment on political issues...
When someone asked the general's lady *if she wanted to be a President's wife, she replied frankly: "What American woman wouldn't want her husband to be President?" The Savannah (Go.) Morning News went her one better, proposed a national conservative coalition ticket with Eisenhower as presidential candidate and Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running 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...