Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC, ABC television). "What Should We Do About Race Segregation...
...English. In autonomy-minded Quebec, he had picked just the right topic: provincial rights. "Our Canadian unity depends on respect for the rights of the individual provinces," he cried. "The province of Quebec has special reasons for insisting on the sanctity of the British North America Act-the preservation of its language, civil law, religious rights and customs." These, said George (amid cheers) "must not be disturbed if we are to have true national unity in Canada." He accused the Liberals of overtaxing "by nearly a billion dollars this year," confidently added, "I don't believe the Liberal Party...
...their 100th "fall guy," Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas took it from 1,200 guests, but he also dished it out. Handed a "diamond-studded" soapbox and a microphone (marked WIND), Thomas cracked: "I think I know why you gave me this-I'm the only man in America who can stand on a platform. In fact, I'm the only one with one to stand on." Introduced as "the man everyone loves and nobody votes for," the veteran of six campaigns admitted that he would "settle for more votes and less applause [but] while...
...years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race ... I can only say that it exists, and that I share it in spite of reason and commonsense...
...name of Connie Mack stands for what is best in our national game . . ." From South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond: "Yours is a record which has no equal..." From Alabama's James Folsom: "Your life has been an inspiration . . ." From Louisiana's Earl K. Long: "America is all the richer for people like...