Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three thousand demonstrators were massed beyond the lower barricade, at the Place des Ternes. It was here that fighting began-not too violently at first; 30 men climbed over the trestles, hitting out at the police with bare fists. The police drew their white batons and lashed out. Three men were knocked to the ground, the others retreated...
...rally parade of last night was like the rolling stone. It picked up a little momentum en route but not very much moss. Only when the marchers finally drew up in front of the Indoor Athletic Building did imperceptible accretions to the fringe of the mob begin to gather...
...Congress will be income tax reductions. He, personally, will see to it. Furthermore, he has just received the report of a citizens advisory group, headed by Roswell Magill, which report advocates lower income taxes together with forty changes in the Federal Revenue Code. This is the report which Drew Pearson charged was prepared on Wall Street. He claimed that if its suggestions were adopted the income tax laws would be shot so full of holes that even a legal novice could prove that the government owes taxes to the corporations...
...zone's central economic planning is not as well administered as the Nazis' was. OMGUS drew up a central plan for allocation, supply and production for the U.S. zone. Then it allowed so many exceptions that scores of individual, unrelated factories make products not called for in the original plan, using a lot of hard-to-get, expensive raw materials. This leaves little foreign exchange to buy the imports which the central plan called for. The central plan has now largely collapsed...
...exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader whose political views Christiansen has never swayed is his aged father, a retired shipwright. When Editor Percy Cudlipp of the Socialist Daily Herald visited the Christiansens, the old man drew Cudlipp aside and whispered: "I'm on your side, you know. I don't hold with his politics...