Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...originator of the New Deal was a liberal "in the sense that he saw changes was inevitable and that government and society had to be remade," Schlesinger continued. Yet his aims were essentially conservative; he wanted to maintain American traditions and ideals...
Schlesinger regretted that individuals like FDR have disappeared from government, noting that "all public statements today sound alike." During the early days of the New Deal, there were real personalities, men who "made a difference in history," even if they did not literally alter the course of events, he added...
...Square Deal. In Boulder, Colo., the coordinator of scholarships at the University of Colorado admitted that it is almost impossible to find students qualified for the Herrick Loan Fund, which can go only to recipients who do not drink, smoke or swear...
...Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth from import privileges led Cubans to dub Scotch whisky "Old Tabernilla." U.S. Gambler Meyer Lansky, who ran the casinos in several big resort hotels in a deal with Batista, caught a chartered plane to Florida with a clutch of his top mobsters. Wherever the Batista supporters descended in the U.S., Cuban exiles turned out to hoot and jeer. Other exiles hired planes for the happy trip back home...
...doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise not to publish his last name anywhere, or a recognizable picture outside a medical journal...