Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onward & Upward. Last July's Democratic platform made no mention of that fiscal dodo, that old museum piece: a balanced budget. Franklin Roosevelt held to precedent-he didn't mention it, either. In its place he substituted a picture of a fertile, high tableland of national income, its rare air oxygenated by Federally subsidized public works, after defense spending ends. He termed the U. S. tax burden "moderate" compared to other countries -somewhat as a doctor might advise a patient suffering from pneumonia in one lung that other people had double pneumonia...
...Last night ... I concluded that if these speakers . . . were representative of the Republican Party, that party was as dead as the dodo. ... So I shall leave Philadelphia with hopes for Wendell Willkie. . . . But to the Republican Party as it sits in Convention Hall, I say good...