Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was that, except for foreign policy, the 81st Congress was proving to be one of the most unmanaged & unmanageable Congesses in recent times. No one man, no one group ran the show-neither the Fair Dealers, the Southern diehards, Taft's moderate Republicans, nor Kenneth Wherry's Midwestern tories, nor any permanent coalition of them...
...Charter for the High Commission, published last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
...commission concluded that the National Union of Journalists' talk of blacklists and fears about monopoly were exaggerated: "There is nothing approaching monopoly in the press as a whole." But it noted that in 58 of 66 towns with daily newspapers, there was no competition except from London's nationally circulated papers. The commission warned: "We should deplore any tendency on the part of the larger chains to expand...
...faint to suit astronomers, but the sun is too bright. Astronomers have been able to analyze the sun's light and photograph the spots that cruise in mysterious cycles across its face. But until recently, their observations have been limited mostly to the brilliant surface itself. Except during total eclipses, the details of the sun's atmosphere have been lost in its glare...
Preaching Was Necessary. For an idealist of 21, there was nothing particularly unusual about his decision except that he acted upon it. For Albert Schweitzer, the resolution was a binding contract with himself. Without telling anyone of his decision, he set out upon such a decade of activity as would have done credit to an ordinary man's lifetime...