Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the event of a Republican victory to Charles Eaton whose action in the field of foreign affairs extends to support of a measure authorizing the use of UNRRA funds as a political weapon...
When Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Martin marched into Philadelphia last week, the event epitomized political history in the making. The key state of Pennsylvania was getting ready to elect Ed Martin to the U.S. Senate. Ed Martin is an unmistakable Republican. The city on which he marched, in the last days of his campaign, is the shrine of traditional Republicanism. And Republicanism, after 14 years of ineffective opposition, was unmistakably resurgent all around...
Looking backward, the most important event of the year, between the United Nations Assembly meeting at London and its second sitting this week in New York, was the clarification of U.S. foreign policy. A year ago neither the friends nor the antagonists of the U.S. had a clear idea of where the U.S. stood. Today the world sees the U.S. as a leading champion among the great powers of a strong United Nations and as an active participant in the discussion of every international issue, from Stettin around to Harbin...
...football team and also on her handsome French teacher, the year when the debating society was her great pride and a broken bloomer elastic her great shame, the year of ice skating, theme writing, coonskin coats, and a senior prom that was the world's most breathlessly important event...
...completely in order when applied to the Boston Orchestra, for no other group can play as loudly or as softly with such clarity, brilliance, and unity. The first desk work is equalled only by that of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and one still instinctively feels that each work is an event of major importance to the musicians, so complete is their concentration on music and conductor. Glib writers, wallowing in the ecstasy of criticism, too often overlook the fact that the Orchestra is what it is because of Dr. Koussovitzky. As an orchestra builder and leader, he has no superior...