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...Glib Proposals." Dewey's speeches followed a familiar pattern. He concentrated on belaboring "this incredible Administration of ours," on warning: "Let's be sure we spend our money like hard-headed Americans instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial...
...year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency released secret reports from Bogota that Communists had planned to sabotage the conference. But nobody had succeeded in proving that Communists had plotted the uprising...
...contrary, Ottawa expects ERP to help keep Canada's economy from outright U.S. control. It will preserve the traditional three-cornered pattern of Canadian commerce (buying in the U.S. and selling to Europe). If ERP puts Europe on its feet, the benefit to Canada will be permanent. If ERP fails, the preservation will be temporary, and Canada will have to cut its economic cloth to a new pattern...
...only Missouri River flood control, but for navigation, irrigation, and electric power as well. One, the Pick-Sloan plan of the Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating the river as a single problem...
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...