Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Family, assiduously escorted by their busy host Prime MinisterSmuts-whom the King personally invested with the Order of Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...Like Daniel, the Federal Council of Churches put its faith in the Lord and walked right in with the lions...
...lions' den was not quiet enough, however, to put Daniel to sleep. Church leaders, asking the industry and labor men to think of their problems "from God's viewpoint," were occasionally disturbed by such cries from the floor as "Wipe out the evil of monopolistic capitalism!" The Council's new President Charles P. Taft, bossing his first meeting, had to be firm to keep delegates on the subject...
Southern Democrats also rode the wind: McKellar's colleague from Tennessee, Tom Stewart, a stooge of Memphis' Boss Crump; Louisiana's John Overton, who had defended Theodore Bilbo six weeks ago; Texas' rambunctious Pappy O'Daniel...
...Celebrated Lincoln's Birthday by standing at rigid attention under a wan February sun while Major General Harry Vaughan laid the presidential wreath at the foot of Daniel Chester French's brooding statue of Lincoln...