Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gael Sullivan, the committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...
...clearly shown last week. The Cabinet turned down the Department of Agriculture's proposal that only 350 million bushels of grain be exported this crop year. Instead, it approved the State Department's request for 475 million bushels. After the decision was announced, grain prices, which had begun to rise on reports of frost, spurted up sharply...
...begun to worry myself about the spending program," confessed Diarist Morgenthau. "I never objected to spending when the alternative would have been human suffering. . . . [But] I wanted all spending for relief and public works to be coordinated under a single head [and] I wanted a scheduled tapering...
...practice of giving feminine names to big storms was begun as a wartime security measure...
Comeback. Actually, it had just begun. When the Seabury Investigation forced dapper Jimmy Walker out of New York's City Hall, a Fusion Party was born and Fiorello LaGuardia, its candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve...