Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That may have been unfortunate. For Men of Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...
...been a long, slow, bitter and devious fight. Yet the outcome, which was a 100% New Deal victory, contained unexpected cheer for Wall Street, too. On the same day that Frank announced he had broken the problem's back, utility holding company preferred stocks began to go up. A flock of them-Standard Gas, Engineers Public Service, Electric Power & Light, Commonwealth & Southern-made new highs for the year. Some brokers reported that 75% of their buying orders were for utility holding company preferreds and bonds. Most succinct explanation for this backhanded phenomenon was that of Shearson, Hammill & Co.: "About...
Last week, in a night session, the nine Coalitionist Senators walked out, left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here...
Meanwhile, at City College Morris Schappes had become almost a campus martyr. Small, red-mustachioed, 33, Schappes had taught literature and composition to some 3,500 undergraduates in his 13 years at the college. Five hundred students turned out to cheer him at a rally, heard him cry: "We are the winter soldiers, and cometh late or cometh early, spring will bring us victory." Schappes denied the board's charges, declared it did not dare accuse him of teaching Communism in class. He was busy turning out statements for the press at the College Teachers Union office near Union...
With Coulee's enormous load added, the industrialization of the Northwest proceeds apace. But the influx of new customers does not cheer the eleven private utilities. They know Raver's 100% public-power dream proceeds apace...