Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is typical of a problem that is popping up all over the country, for publicly owned electric power plants are rapidly increasing in number and coming into confict with existing systems. Some consider this "the welcome hand of a Fair Deal"; others call it "specter of socialism." But all agree that Government's role in electricity production is expanding so greatly that it is taking over a new role in the economy...
...through three decades of Oklahoma politics. He served two terms in Congress, twice ran unsuccessfully for governor, borrowed $40 in 1930 to run again and won, and offered himself in 1932 as a Democratic presidential candidate. In 1935 he faded into the background, nursing a hatred of the New Deal...
...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...
...levels for one year. The T.U.C. has no authority to make its decisions binding on its members, but it looked as if most of its unions would stick to the agreement. British labor was still learning the hard lesson that Britain's Socialist government could be a good deal tougher than the bosses with whom Ernie Bevin bargained in his trade-union days...
...Foremost in his makeup is vitality, drive, and aggressiveness," said Dr. Slight. "But he is expected to shut down these drives and be a man of diplomacy. The tycoon has not much place nowadays. The executive must be a compromiser. Therefore, a great deal of his innate drive cannot be expressed outwardly...