Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that the idea is being understood more than ever before what would happen if any part of the Hemisphere were dominated by a successful Germany. We wouldn't live the same kind of lives - that is the easiest way of putting it. Because that new- not the old German civilization- that new German civilization is so totally different from what all of us have been accustomed to since we were born. I shudder to think of what would happen to any part of the Hemisphere that came under German domination...
...Will Not Happen Here...
...moral was dreadfully plain to all the U.S. (where the same thing would happen State by State if the people let the bosses run things): if the people and press fail, they will get the kind of Congress they deserve, and the kind of Government they deserve...
...frightened to give the people the vote, not because they really think anarchy would spread throughout the South, but because they want to hold their plush seats as long as possible. It is noteworthy that all the arguments of this determined group are couched in fear of what would happen to the South were the vote extended. But nothing revolutionary has happened in Florida, Louisiana, or North Carolina, three States that have abolished their tax--nothing except an extension of democracy. North Carolina's effective vote went up 70 per cent, Louisiana's 90 per cent, and Florida...
...markup-and would sell at that price by June, when earlier stocks are exhausted, if there were no intervening price ceiling.) So how will retailers survive if their margin Is drastically cut by having wholesale and retail prices fixed on the same date (which appeared to be what would happen...