Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats it was a triumphant week. Once again they were in charge of the congressional household which they had dominated for 14 years, from 1933 to 1947. There was more than office furniture to be moved around. The Republicans, in their two brief years of power, had also disarranged a lot of Democratic political furniture (e.g., labor laws and tax bills), and the Democrats were determined to put-them back in place...
...made in some areas, and the President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just as hard in the future as he fought before November's election. But he now has a Congress that can be managed by Fair Dealers, and expectations of victories are more than...
...their brief and bloody day, the seven old men and their fellows had ruled an empire greater than Alexander's or Caesar's or Napoleon's. Last week, at midnight after the winter solstice, the paths of Japan's top war leaders ended without glory, but with a dignity that seemed enhanced a little by the doubt and confusion among the victors...
...strong, their director, the Rev. Clifford A. Underwood, said a prayer: "We thank thee, O God, for so many blessings. We thank thee for the fruits of our gardens. But we thank thee most for the gift of Bethlehem, the gift of thine only begotten Son." In thg brief silence which followed, the sound of a distant airplane came faintly to the church. Then the men, women and girls of the choir opened their books and began to sing...
...were new. Yet it was big news. For it pulled together the whole kit & caboodle of Stalin's essential beliefs, the beliefs on which he bases his decisions. It was the first time that this had been done in such concise form. Historicus presents a scholar's brief packed with bobtailed quotations of tortured Marxist prose. Following is a decoding of what...