Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain Mobilizer Dorothy Thompson found Husband Sinclair Lewis (It Can't Happen Here) mobilizing on the America First front...
...such a case would have been to take the round away from Louis as a warning. . . ." Said Promoter Mike Jacobs, seeing the golden lining in the cloud of dispute: "All I can say is that anybody who stays away from a Louis fight this year is crazy. Anything can happen." Louis' next opponents: Billy Conn (June 18), Abe Simon (July 23), Lou Nova (Sept. 17). Then the Baby Baer will probably get another chance at the champion...
...Observers concede colorful Candidate Hatfield little chance of a Senatorial nomination, but in a State which elects a song-&-biscuit man as Governor anything can happen. Says Candidate Hatfield of Governor O'Daniel (who may decide he wants the Senatorial nomination): "I think he's about out of biscuits."; Of Martin Dies (who definitely wants it): "Dies makes a fine speech but it's always the same one." "Commodore"; Hatfield's unvarying costume is a blue denim shirt, khaki pants, a three-gallon hat braided with bear grass...
...were back on their business beats seeing agents and sponsors, watching for first trade trends after the FCC decrees. NBC was expected to fight the decrees to the end. But if NBC and CBS found no relief in court or Congress in the next 90 days, what would happen to their business...
...boom had not yet reached the point of retail-price inflation, Keynes's New Deal disciples were already giving his basic idea a startling twist. A few Administration corners buzzed with it. Provoked by 1 ) the problem of U.S. morale, and 2) the perplexing question of what will happen to the economy when defense spending ends, the New Dealers thought about killing both birds with one stone by giving U.S. youth a Keynesian lien on the Peace...