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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes out for socialized medicine, then the Republican Party has an issue on which to put up a real battle. And we've got to let the people know that we want decentralization of government and make them see why home rule is vital for this country . . . We found in New Jersey that if we were to have a winning team we had to stand for something...
Krug got in rows with other federal officials over reclamation projects, got the President's back up by going to Congress for more money over the head of the Budget Bureau. He was also found wanting when political accounts were added up after the 1948 election campaign...
...half century of democratic American tutelage, the Philippines had been made safer for democracy than any other country in Asia; last week's national elections for a new President and Congress rudely upset that hope. Not everywhere were conditions as bad as in Occidental Negros Province; U.S. correspondents found that in Manila, the capital, balloting on the whole seemed to be honest. But in most other parts of the islands, the elections were marked by fraud, intimidation and violence...
Almost everyone in the area found himself in a crowd last night, but neither the crowds nor the police who were ready to handle them were excited or worried...
...opened the book and turned to the preface. "In the field of government operation of utilities generally considered to lie within the domain of private enterprise . . ." He turned quickly to near the middle and found a series of pie-shaped diagrams in rows across the page. He added the percents in one of the pies, found they came to a hundred, and closed the book. Some music would help; he leaned over and turned on the radio...