Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the new Congress tried its wings last week, with the Democrats triumphantly in control, it seemed almost like old times. Old familiar faces, which had all but disappeared from sight during the two-year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the...
By the time he came up for re-election in 1947, Humphrey hardly needed to campaign. He won by an even greater plurality than before, carried every ward in the city. Hubert Horatio Humphrey got to thinking about Washington again.
For two days last week the chances for peace in Palestine looked good. The Jews had won their immediate objective-an Egyptian offer to cease fire and talk armistice terms. They quickly accepted. But at week's end the odds in favor of peace were off again.
After Fascism's fall, the horns honked again triumphantly. Jaywalking became an assertion of individual liberty. Then, last year, to show that freedom is not license, the police clamped down.
Franco's action was obviously a calculated contribution to his new "liberal" buildup. But as silver-haired old Joseph Cuby, the acting rabbi, intoned a psalm in benediction of Spain and of "Spain's head of state," his voice shook with sincere emotion. At the end of the...