Word: erful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself all the way out of the New Deal with an opening remark of eight significant words: "Had this been a free and open convention...
Always under the assumption of the great er power of the defense, the prompt sup port to the Belgians by the Allies...
Meanwhile many a builder and architect (but nary a N. A. B. 0. M.-er) wondered whether Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa. did not have the right idea in taxing land at twice the rate of property improvements. This tax tends to depress price of vacant land, make it readily available to builders. Early this spring, Scranton had taken title to 6,000 unsalable, tax-delinquent properties, hoped to make up for its tax losses by renting them itself...
...Gilboy found that the relief problem is probably "permanent;" that the majority of persons applying for work relief are not "ne'er-de-wells," but ordinarily hard-working people who were able to support themselves before depression unemployment set in. That the unemployed put off applying for work relief as long as possible, exhausting all resources and going heavily into debt; that far from living in luxury on the relief rolls, work relief families have been poorly fed, clothed and housed, with income running well below the minimum standards established by the relief authorities; that the average debt of families...