Word: afters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In each case, Webb argues, the party chose to support the minority against the majority. Then the party ran out of homesteads. After that, says Webb, "the Republican Party had no place at all for the farmer ... It compelled him to buy in a protected market and permitted him to...
The partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found...
As Senator from South Carolina, War Mobilizer and Supreme Court Justice, James F. Byrnes was one of the strong right arms that helped Franklin D. Roosevelt fashion his New Deal. After Roosevelt's death, shrewd, spry Jimmy Byrnes stayed on in Washington, became Harry Truman's first Secretary...
Byrnes did not get back until December. He went to see President Truman and formally resigned. "I had to wait a couple of weeks until Marshall could get back [from China]. So I went to the Naval Hospital again and they made another test. After they got through, a doctor...