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...more confident sentences, Scott Lucas dumped the rest of Harry Truman's fondest projects over the side. Lucas saw little hope for the Fair Deal's social program. He "seriously doubted" if anything could be done about civil rights. "We had a program that couldn't possibly be enacted by any Congress in seven months," he added (though Harry Truman, a year ago, had said that the "terrible" 80th Congress could pass a comparable program in 15 days, if it really wanted...
After their long political catnap, the Conservatives were at last thoroughly awake, worked harder than Labor to get out the vote. By week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
...executed. Most of the schools of painting were represented-from the uninhibited Joe (Get In There and Paint) Alger sect to the ubiquitous abstractionists, some of whom found it necessary to attach typewritten explanations of their work for the enlightenment of our occasionally befuddled judges. Spectators, as usual, were fondest of the good old standby scenes of someone's favorite Nantucket seascape or a nostalgic Connecticut farmhouse with trees...
...gaudy entertainment (for one party, they flooded the main dining room, served dinner on gondolas to the music of imported Venetian gondoliers), they boomed the value of the stock to ?20 a share in three years. This and other triumphs prompted Ritz's millionaire friends to back his fondest dream-a hotel of his own in Paris, which would be "the summum of elegance." Ritz himself saw to it that the new hotel on the Place Vendôme was comparatively small (only 225 rooms), exquisitely furnished (mainly Louis Quinze and Empire), meticulously serviced...
...larger the Democratic percentage. Thus, to arrive at his final winning percentage, Gallup must estimate in advance how many voters will go to the polls. His other headache is doping out the electoral vote; in 1944 Ohio went Republican by only 2/10 of 1% of the ballots. His fondest dream is that Congress will some day abolish the Electoral College...