Word: birthright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bourgeois' France, which won its birthright in the Revolution and has been hanging on to it grimly ever since. It is the France which widened the streets of Paris to discourage new revolutions, set up guilds to prevent overproduction, equated smallness with self-sufficiency, and self-sufficiency with independence. Generations of French children were brought up on the adage: my glass is small...
...lusty, horn-tooting city of 200,000. A sophisticated and embittered lot, the West Bankers captured most of the country's commerce, filled half the 40 seats in Parliament, and poured out vituperation toward the West -at Israel, and at the U.S., which in their eyes gave their birthright to the Jews...
...Road. The road that led Averell Harriman into politics began in 1928. A birthright Republican, he switched to the Democratic side that year because he liked Alfred E. Emith and disliked G.O.P. tariff policies. Four years later, he was for an old friend of the family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and in 1933 he became New York chairman of the President's Re-Employment Campaign Committee, a unit of NRA. For Averell Harriman, that was the beginning of a Federal Government career that led him to one of the longest and most varied records any man has ever achieved...
...touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...
Miss Teddi King (Storyville LP). A new jazz singer is news, and this news is good. Songstress King has a smoky-sounding voice that conveys much of jazz music's indescribable wistfulness, the birthright of Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald & Co. Among her eight tunes: I Saw Stars, Love Is Here to Stay...