Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut's Raymond E. Baldwin wanted some changes made. So did Illinois' Dwight H. Green. And California's independent Governor Earl Warren got angry when his canned speech arrived in Sacramento just 24 hours before his broadcast. Warren, who goes along with California labor, got a text salted with attacks on "the Earl Browder-Sidney Hillman-Communist-allied Political Action Committee." Warren blue-penciled furiously. In Manhattan, red-faced GOPsters rushed out corrections...
...Christian Beacon, funda mentalist weekly, a hue & cry arose, startled the Navy Department into reviewing the Gatlin case. Chaplain Gatlin was invited back, put under the district chaplain of the Third Naval District (New York, Connecticut, part of New Jersey), who told him to "follow the leadership of the Lord" in his duties...
This geometric bogey was raised last week by Connecticut Wesleyan's Librarian Fremont Rider in The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library (Hadham Press, $4.00). But Librarian Rider is not overly alarmed. He thinks the solution is already at hand, in microprint...
...Nine thousand miles from home, the Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
...grey Walter F. George had a considerably more modest plan to cushion the U.S. worker against a postwar depression. He proposed that each state fix its own scale of unemployment compensation (which at present ranges from $2-a-week minimum in Alabama to $22-a-week maximum in Connecticut), and that the states continue to foot the bill. The Federal Government would step in only if a state could not meet all payments; then it would lend, not give funds...