Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats could still pray. The farm vote for Eisenhower, overwhelming (67%) in 1952, has dropped appreciably -to 61%. Said Soothsayer Gallup of the trends: "While Republicans will cheer [the President's] impressive labor gains, Democrats can take heart from the fact that the farm vote shows signs of moving away from the Republicans...
...Joined Mamie in entertaining 812 ailing soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines at the White House's traditional lawn party for hospitalized servicemen. For each of the 812 there was a handshake and a word of cheer and hope. "God bless you all," said Mamie to Airman 2/C Robert Marshall, a polio victim. "I'm keeping my fingers crossed and saying all sorts of prayers...
Fire Escape. In Tokyo, arrested for setting fire to an express train, Takemi Konya explained that he had just flunked his university entrance exams, was merely trying to cheer himself...
...habit of jotting down iconoclastic notes to himself for use in future essays. Stuffed away and forgotten, they were found shortly before his death early this year and assembled as his final book. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook (293 pp.; Knopf; $3.95) is a last lusty Bronx cheer at the muscular pessimist of Baltimore. Some samples...
...justify his cheer, Weeks read off a bundle of statistics fresh from the Gov ernment's tabulating machines. April employment rose to a new record for the month of 64 million, and the rolls of the unemployed were cut 300,000 to 2,500,000. *Personal income for March climbed to a record annual rate of $315 billion, a gain of $19 billion over last year. Weeks conceded that the economy is showing soft spots in autos and residential construction, but thought there was nothing to worry about. But Weeks-along with Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Presidential Economic Adviser...