Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come what might on Election Day, the President was relaxed. He told the Shriners: "People ask me how I could find the strength to campaign so hard and for so long. That's easy-I'm out of jail when I'm out campaigning...
Results in key battles: CONNECTICUT. In normally Republican Connecticut, long-jawed Chester Bowles, former OPAdministrator, who had campaigned hard at picnics and ball games for "voluntary" price control and more state aid for housiag, upset all predictions by edging out Republican incumbent James C. Shannon, a Bridgeport lawyer. Said surprised New Dealer Bowles: "The Roosevelt spirit has proved itself to be very much alive today...
...thing, New York "society" has never been able to shut its top drawer (as more settled towns have, or pretend to have); socialites, cafe socialites, climbers and hangers-on buzz across the city's night life like a queenless swarm. But the hard fact was that the debut was becoming an anachronism. In a less strident day, when children were seen and not heard, a debut was at least as significant as the unveiling of a civic monument. If it uncovered nothing the audience had not seen before, it was at least official and marked the removal...
Drab, Socialist and hard-pressed Britain badly needed a flash of color, a majestic reminder of past glory. Last week it got one. The pageantry lasted for only a few hours; the worries, the austerity would remain...
...spiritual homes: "I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first, and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one . . . There never was any such species as Anglo-Irish; and there never will be. It is hard to make Englishmen understand this, because America can change an Englishman into a Yankee before his boots are worn out" Of the "illusion" that "the Irish are The Chosen Race ... I can only say that it exists, and that I share it in spite of reason and commonsense...