Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
...smiling. That's the way I wanted it to be. No weeping stuff." Squint had one more request: he wanted his eyes given to New York's Eye-Bank (doctors said the corneas could still be used despite the damage caused by the caustic 41 years ago...
...battle of the courts was just another phase of New Dealer Chester Bowles's continuing war with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. A fortnight ago Bowles adjourned the legislature by proclamation, under a 131-year-old law never used before, to get the House out of his way. Then he appointed 129 judges and deputies to replace Republicans whose two-year terms were about to expire...
...month ago, Cripps revealed, he had issued a secret order stopping all new dollar purchases. It would stay in effect at least three months. A further period of "restraint and restriction" might lie ahead; that could well mean less food and tobacco from...
...light. His job, at a time when the job needed doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay...