Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Hoover's day, a Roosevelt, or New Deal, generation of voters has grown up. The voters of this generation voted, in 1948, for a continuation of social security, a continuation of reclamation, TVAs, AECs, SECs and EGAs; for Government help for farmers and labor; for Government supervision of banks and business practices; for federal aid in housing and education. The people, in effect, had voted for themselves...
...COFFEY JR., 30, is a onetime coal miner. He resigned his Air Force lieutenant-colonelcy and his post as air attache at the U.S. Embassy in Chile to run for office in a traditionally Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
...Flower of the Nation." To some nations, the results brought dismay. It had been Tom Dewey, after all, who had insisted on more help to the sagging government of China. "Next January," Chinese had told themselves, "will be the turning point." Last week, as Nanking read the bitter bulletins from Manchuria and the north (see FOREIGN NEWS), it received a depressing dispatch from Washington: "There is little reason to believe that President Truman's astonishing victory will affect greatly the Democratic administration's existing China policy...
Sessions will deal with the policies, management procedures, and industrial techniques by which the potential industrial power of the United States may be coordinated. They are aimed to help men who will have trouble procuring men and materials in case of an emergency...
Dress rehearsal for the show was held yesterday from 2:15 to 6:00 p.m. with Boston newspapers supplying photographers and flashbulbs. "Life" even turned up a photographer to help the local cameramen...