Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a magician could have performed the feat that Harry Truman blithely promised the voters in his election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do the trick was no magician, and not even a farmer. He was a bald, inconspicuous Colorado lawyer, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. Last week Brannan went before the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and solemnly pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Even as rabbits...
Secretary Brannan proposed to let the price of food fall where it would on a free market, while guaranteeing farmers a whopping big cash income, no matter how cheaply their crops sold in the marketplace. To hear him tell it he had "a method which not only protects the farmer but gives consumers a real break...
...meet Yale tomorrow afternoon at the Milford, Connecticut, Yacht Club for their first race of the spring. The Crimson boat will be sailed by John Bishop and Ed White, who came in second in the Freshman Intercollegiate Regatta, and who defeated jayvee teams from six greater Boston colleges last fall...
...must be a citizen of China, in need of financial assistance, and enrolled in a course of study since the Fall term of 1948 or earlier. He must also be majoring in what the State Department calls "a technical field," and he will be required to sign a pledge to return to China when his education is finished. Students concentrating in Social Sciences and Humanities will not be considered for grants...
Denis Fodor's short story, "The Fall of Barkutzan," is clearly the best piece of writing in the lot, and perhaps the best story the Advocate has published all year. Fodor manages to contrast effectively the earthy playfulness of a carnival crowd in a little Czechoslovakian village with the ominous arrival of the news of the Gottwald coup...