Word: towards
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...Dewey speech was a belated swing toward the course which Senator Vandenberg has long been steering in Congress (see The Congress). But it represented a clean break with the conservatives in the G.O.P...
Churchill is right [TIME, Feb. 2]. The world is at a crucial point in the evolutionary process. We have here and now to resolve the question as to whether the world social organism shall advance toward closer integration along the lines of individual freedom and intelligent self-determination, which is democracy, or within a matrix of "scientific" and coercive direction by a political elite, which is world Communism...
...successor as Vice President, had "crazy ideas" and that Henry Morgenthau "had no ideas at all." Garner wondered "by just what methods of sorcery one of such meager abilities remained in the high post of Secretary of the Treasury." Once Garner said: "Morgenthau is the most servile man toward Roosevelt. . . . In Cabinet meetings, he looks like he is afraid someone will ask him a question and he will give an answer that will displease Roosevelt."* Garner tried to joke with Morgenthau, gave it up "because he had no sense of humor." Then he amended the phrase; he thought perhaps...
America's capacity to lead depends on its faculty to produce wise and effective leaders, its success in retaining unity at home, and its ability as a people to continue to believe in the ideals which have motivated the past and point the way toward the future, President Conant asserted last night at a dinner of the Economic Club of Chicago...
President Truman's policy toward Russia will come up for discussion at tonight's Law Forum meeting at 7:50 o'clock in Rindge Tech Auditorium. Speakers will be Joseph W. Alsop '32, columinist for the New York Herald Tribune, and I. F. Stone. Washington editor of The Nation...