Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House had voted for a $6 billion slash. Senate Leader Bob Taft wanted a $4.5 billion cut. But young William Fife Knowland, the junior Senator from California, was determined to have $3 billion of the budget earmarked for reduction of the astronomical national debt, and that could not be done if the Senate approved the cut advocated by Ohio's Taft...
Governor Warren of California appointed Bill Knowland to the Senate in 1945 to pay off an old political debt to his influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...
...Government had done a good job since Liberation. The shops were full of goods, 1946 American cars rolled through the streets, multicolored neon lights made Brussels one of Europe's few gay capitals. By permitting a rich flow of imports, cutting prices 10%, keeping wages down and boosting taxes, the Government had licked inflation. But trade was stagnating. Wailed Catholic Opposition Leader Frans van Cauwelaert: "We have wasted our chances, we have squandered our resources. For too long now we have gobbled down the compliments of visiting foreigners, telling us how well off we are compared to other European...
...Switzerland, without distraction from students or politics, Sigerist proposes to devote himself to quiet reflection and writing. He thinks that his history of medicine will be the last to be written by one man: medicine is becoming so complicated that "next time it will be done by a group." He is already preparing an attractive blurb for his book: "It will be a history of human civilization with emphasis on health and medicine. It will tell what people in the various civilizations ate and wore. It will tell what kind of houses the Egyptians lived in and whether they...
...Cave of the Heart, done to music by Samuel Barber, Choreographer Graham stalked deep into dark Freudian corridors. Using the Medea legend as a starting "state of mind," she did a dance "of possessive and destroying love, a love which feeds upon itself and, when it is overthrown, is fulfilled only in revenge." Actually, the dance spoke for itself, and well: nobody needed program notes to interpret her hard, sure movements of jealous hatred...