Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild-eyed Democratic "liberals." Such political labels don't fit, says Johnson in the current University of Texas Texas Quarterly: "God made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal, a conservative, a Texan, a taxpayer, a rancher, a businessman, a consumer, a parent, a voter, and not as young [50] as I used to be nor as old as I expect...
...Police in 73 cities are unionized (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), e.g., New Haven, Conn.; St. Paul; Omaha; El Paso; Denver; Portland, Ore. The union's charter forbids police membership to strike...
Roosevelt: "I think he had been brought up to think of us as a colonial imperialist power. I don't think he really understood European politics much. I don't think any American did, much...
...Finest Architect." Never before had the U.S. Government gone to such length to impress a foreign country with an embassy. As architect, it hired Edward Stone (TIME Cover, March 31 ), designer of the American Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. The building was dubbed the Taj Maria* for Stone's wife ("Mr. Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from...
...conservative tastes, complained about the lacy grille that covered the great expanse of glass, plaintively said. "I want to see the blue sky." Mrs. Bunker, who not long ago began promoting long-handled brooms for Indian sweepers-and thus closely resembled the character in The Ugly American called "the woman who unbent the backs of our people"-had even more serious things to grumble about...