Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call. Lilienthal's old enemies were jubilant. Cried Tennessee's aged Senator Kenneth McKellar, who had badgered Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant" who deserved to know that "the great mass of Americans recognize the splendid work he has done." In a letter of unusual warmth and appreciation to "Dear Dave," President Harry Truman agreed. "Reluctantly and with the utmost regret," he accepted the resignation, but with the understanding that Lilienthal would still...
...little the Republican Party can do at present, Webb believes. "The Democrats [have] an initiative based on [this] new principle which for the time being the Republican Party cannot possibly take from it and remain the Republican Party ... It can only complain, criticize, claim it can do the job better and more efficiently. Under present conditions it seems doubtful whether it can find anything to offer that its members would accept or the American voters would take at face value. The Republican Party worked out to the last grain its vein of success and for the present it is through...
...public interest would be better served ... by the granting of probation to an old and broken man," said the appeal. The court gave the government a week to reply, and Andy May and the Garsson brothers had won at least one more postponement of their date with the warden...
While the '46 Album is hastening to join the '47-'48 Album in the better-late-than-never department, the '49 Album, a veritable tyro in the field, has announced a tentative publication date of April 1, 1950. April Fool's Day being what it is, however, there is no reason to expect any new speed records in Album production...
Albums are a tricky business--that is quite apparent. Perhaps yearbooks will be better...