Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles the campaign suddenly stalled. After the San Francisco and Los Angeles speeches, many Republicans feared that Tom Dewey had fallen into the fatal Willkie "Me Too" trap. (In San Francisco, Dewey had done nothing more shocking than to say, in effect, that if the U.S. has discarded Adam Smith's economics it cannot continue to hang, tooth & nail, to Thomas Jefferson's politics. In Los Angeles, he had merely said that if the U.S. is to have Social Security, it should be there for all.) But some GOPsters shook their heads, and Hatchet-man Harold Ickes...
Chucho Reyes quickly covers big sheets of Chinese paper with whorls of screaming paint representing prancing horses (see cut), proud cocks, or wooden-faced little angels. To these images, Chucho sometimes adds impressions of Adam & Eve, fallen women or skeletons. All spring from Mexican folklore...
Trials went on of men suspected of a hand in the July attempt on Hitler's life. Dr. Carl Goerdeler, onetime Oberbürger-meister of Leipzig, and said to be the ringleader, was hanged with six others. One of them was Adam von Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death...
Characters in the show include Adam & Eve, Cleopatra, George Washington. The plot is thin but the lessons are pointed-and the students earn credits by attending...
Vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, pastor of Manhattan's Abyssinian Baptist Church and Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-to-be popped off to a reporter...