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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misery. Once they were fertile land known to the Kentish peasants as Lomea (The Low Island), and belonged to Earl Godwine, friend of Edward the Confessor. One legend says that Godwine, hard-pressed by his enemies, vowed to the Virgin that if he got back to Lomea he would build a steeple to Tenterden Church; when he escaped he forgot the vow. Another version: that the Abbot of Canterbury built the steeple from money intended for the island's dikes...
...found Cramer ensconced in a small third-floor office its walls lined with colored graphs on unemployment figures and economic trends, and book cases full of large volumes, mostly on labor relations. Cramer himself added to the general air of efficiency. He is about five feet seven, has a build like Sidney Green street and a personality which fairly exudes confidence from the first...
...summer's end, businessmen began to build up their inventories. The drop in prices, such as it was, had not lasted long or gone far. Domestic demand began to creep up again. Most significant example: the housing boom, which had been almost busted by high construction prices in the spring, turned into a boom again. By year's end, the U.S. had started an estimated 860,000 housing units (up 28% above 1946) and was building in the last quarter at the rate of well over 870,000 starts a year...
...Truman, however, is dealing with a Republican Congress which he knows to be unsympathetic to his proposals. It may be that the President believes that he can best further these proposals by merely keeping them before the country and permitting popular opinion to build up in favor of them while awaiting the day when there is a chance of their acceptance by Congress...
...Whimsical" is a better word. "The Bishop's Wife" is minor whimsy. It shows how Dudley enables the bishop to get enough money to build a cathedral. It then shows how Dudley persuades both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...