Word: madison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easy, To explain how the President could have "ead Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great...
...Dewey's supporters kicked and fought last week over plans to take a poll of presidential choices at the Wisconsin Republican State Convention in Madison. They were sure, or thought they were sure, that Harold Stassen's workers had thought up the poll, and that it would be a cinch for a Stassen victory. Dewey's cohorts even asked his supporters to boycott the straw vote...
C.I.O. President Philip Murray sounded the deepest organ tones. When he arose to address a jampacked veto rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, his voice trembled with bitterness. The bill was "dastardly," "dangerously provocative," a "foul brew," he roared. "Our liberties are threatened by reactionary monopoly, driving us on the first long step toward domestic fascism. . . . From here henceforward, if this bill becomes law, the organized labor movement is on the defensive in this country. . . . Let us return to private life the backers of this ugly measure...
...declined into old age, fewer & fewer new people found their way to the high, white little gallery on Manhattan's Madison Ave., called "An American Place." "I'm glad," he would say mysteriously, "that no one has been in today to disturb these pictures." Some of those who did were frightened away by the proprietor's brooding glance...
Philip E. Miles, Jr., of 1900 Arlington Place, Madison, Wisconsin, a graduate of West High School...