Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch...
...When I was a boy," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it was thought we could live our lives on a little piece of ground in the West, and the older folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt...
...back in Oregon, Democratic leaders blanched in dismay. Wayne Morse had left the G.O.P. in wreckage. Now, as a Democrat, he was proposing to blow his latest party wide open. Said a top Oregon Democrat distractedly: "This is harmful to the party. There's a hard core for Neuberger and a very hard core for Morse. But what the hell about the middle? It gets down to this: What good can come out of this for the party...
...Navy's nuclear submarine boss. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, then hit the missile-and nuclear-training circuit from California's Lockheed plant, where the Polaris is produced, to Groton's boat yard. Says Osborn: "Driving the wedge of learning into your head is work, hard work. There's no easy...
...this would be radical and painful therapy: Common Market membership would flood the country with industrial products cheaper and better than Spain's own : devaluation and convertibility would be hard on corrupt officials, smugglers and black-marketeers: a heavy cutback in government spending may within a month put a quarter of a million workers on the streets of Barcelona alone. Aware of the dangers-which could be political as well as economic-Ullastres told his Barcelona audience: "This is probably the worst moment through which we will pass . . . There will be a few disturbances, layoffs, reduction of production . . . increases...