Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greenwich, Conn, suspected out loud that it didn't want to be a part of the United Nations Organization world capital. But, like many another Connecticut and Westchester County town, it couldn't make up its mind. Last week it held an election to settle the matter. Of the 7,000 who voted, 5,000 were against being adopted. But this did not quiet the uproar. Only a minority of the town's 20,000 registered voters had troubled to vote...
...background, he had fallen into the habit of voting for Franklin Roosevelt. Out of his market research, and his admiration for the New Deal, he had decided that the future of the nation lay in raising the living standards of its lowest-bracket third. One day he called on Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Francis Maloney and said: "Senator, I want to get into Democratic politics. How do I go about...
Senator Maloney soon had the answer. He had Bowles made OPA chief for Connecticut. Then, after Leon Henderson was forced out by irate Congressmen and Prentiss Brown failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA. ''What's wrong with him?" asked Byrnes. Replied Maloney: "Only two things. He was on the America First Committee and he's damn fool enough to want to come to Washington...
From the pioneer Connecticut outpost has grown an industrial city of 65,000. Near the commemorative tablet stands a World War II honor roll, with gold stars marking the name of many a newer seeker after liberty: Arruzza, Dubrovsky, Malizewski, Pezzimenti...
Little Amerika left the Russians cold; Amerika Illustrated was hot stuff. They liked its eye-filling pictures of Arizona deserts, TVA dams, the white steeples of a Connecticut town, Radio City, the Blue-grass country, the Senate in session, Manhattan's garment district. The magazine was written and translated in the U.S., sent to Moscow for checking - and slight censorship - by the Foreign Office, returned for printing, shipped back as a finished product...