Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since we are the individuals who were responsible for the damage done to the Widener Library columns, we feel that the least we can do is to extend our apologies to you and to Harvard University...
...Fashioned Way. Trying to sum up the failure and its lessons, TIME Correspondent Edwin C. Heinke, Assistant Managing Editor of the Indianapolis Times, wired: "The returns made me realize how good, old-fashioned legwork-the kind I hadn't done-was still the most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been...
...foreign countries-from Canada to Australia and Japan. The onetime alcoholics feel that their disease is one which cannot be cured, but can be arrested; they know that they cannot safely take even a single drink. They know that the fight is a tough one, but it can be done, with the help of friends and a Higher Power...
...cable to Stalin to the same effect; when Hopkins heard about it he ordered the White House map room to stop the Stalin cable. The cable officers obeyed without question. Then Hopkins went to F.D.R.'s bedroom, where the President was shaving, told him what he had done, and persuaded him that the U.S. should always speak for itself. Roosevelt admitted that he had made a serious mistake, and took it all back...
...himself: he is the gullible little guy just trying to learn the ropes, and always being outsmarted. With all the self-depreciation, Billy lets it be known that he is a pretty clever fellow. From Socrates to Will Rogers it has been a good routine when done right, and Billy makes a fairly successful stab...