Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens, of course, think this an odd way of getting things done. If President Truman, for instance, should declare that he would take nothing but water with a little bicarbonate of soda until the country behaved itself (i.e., acted as Mr. Truman thought it should), the U.S. public would not know what to think, or what to do about it. Last week, Mr. Truman was aboard the battleship Missouri (see The Presidency), eating very well. He was due back in the White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated...
Taft had been discussing the high price of food and what he thought should be done to allay it. "Voluntary reduction of consumption," he said, "is the first step. We should eat less . . . eat less meat and eat less extravagantly." He went right on talking. The Chicago Daily News's Ed Lahey broke in, gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking: "Do you think that would cover the whole populace...
...Although before the war Varsity lettermen not only had to carry the ball on the field, but also had to lead cheers, the cheerleading is now done solely by separate students," he said. Last spring the undergraduate Athletic Council and the H.A.A. decided that the job of cheerleading assumed by the students during the war should be continued if student interest remained...
...police that an efficient "abortion mill" was operating somewhere in New York City. Cops and detectives had worked for five weeks, tapping wires, spying through binoculars, loafing around in disguise, before they could put the finger on an apartment house in The Bronx. Some fine undercover work was done during the American Legion Convention by a policeman and a policewoman disguised as a Kansas Legionnaire and his wife...
...Everybody Listeninq? MARCH OF TIME rib-roasts U.S. radio (TIME, Sept. 1). Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...