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Word: hayracks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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...plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There, in the intermission of a barn dance, Mr. Buell made a pre-campaign speech-a speech which, because it touched not on local issues but on the whole meaning of Congress today, had implications far beyond Massachusetts' First District. In a tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: WHY BE A CONGRESSMAN? | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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