Word: ican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BOSTON--Bullet Bobby Feller and a pair of efficient henchmen, Hal Newhouser and Spud Chandler, were the big three moundsmen who made the Amer- ican Leaguers 3 to 1 favorites for tomorrow's major league All-Star battle at Fenway Park...
Stegner's first non-fiction work, part of the American Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all ican Folkway series, takes Mormonism from all points of view and up to the present day. The scholarship is amazingly thorough and the intimate details such as interviews with now-senile bandits and orators that colored the old West are nothing short of sensational. Wallace Stegner has spent most of his life in Mormon country so he can write their story in their language without any trace of a strained, scholastic note. The story is only vaguely organized; what it loses in form...
...expression to this hatred of Fascism," with a twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...