Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ickes' Reclamation Bureau, and both are being temporarily managed by Ickes' able, shrewd Dr. Paul Raver. To make this control permanent, Ickes got a bill introduced in Congress setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board, appointed by the President, with terms extending over a nine-year span...
...which time they will be working in factories, stores, plants, mines, offices, etcetera. When I say live there, I mean lead the life that the ordinary man in the street leads, unknown to the American Government, lost in the mob, riding in streetcars, having a Coca-Cola at the counter of some botica, getting into traffic jams, eating hot dogs at the races and getting very little sleep if they should live in New York City where the horns of automobiles make it so tough for one's nerves. No gorgeous Cadillacs or Packards waiting...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...
Without seeking to detract in any way from the credit out pink playmates should get for their good order and discipline, I should like to point out that there was no likelihood whatever of any clash, and that when America First counter-pickets were sent out to prevent the Student Union from having a monopoly on the newspaper photographs, they were limited in number and given equally strict orders not to do any talking or anything else that might start trouble...
...boys may be stocking up on clothes because they're afraid to wait any more. So that's why clothes sell O.K. But nobody needs to stock up on butts," said another counter...