Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, bespectacled Vermont farmer named James Hayford rose to present an idea. He wanted an amendment stating: "Although we are critical of the foreign policy of the U.S., it is not our intention to give blanket endorsement to the foreign policy of any nation...
...biggest punch was in his sentence calling for a special session of Congress. That was the President's own idea and it was a well-kept secret. Less than half a dozen party bigwigs knew of his decision. Harry Truman was determined to surprise the delegates and show them that they had nominated a man with fight...
...great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When you see a pitcher throw what I call a 'lazy pitch,' fire the ball back at him and wake him up." The Giants seemed to get the general idea...
...Howard Thurman, dean of the chapel and professor of Christian theology at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, got an unusually challenging letter. It was an invitation to help start an interracial, interdenominational church in San Francisco. There was no assurance that the colored people would take to the idea, or that white San Franciscans would approve. The pay would be negligible. Before long, Thurman had left Howard, where he had been twelve years, and was on his way to the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples...
When Dr. Martin Bernfield died in San Antonio two years ago, his office nurse, Rachel Starr, found herself with $44,000, the savings of 27 years, and nothing to do. But she had an idea. Bernfield had made a professional hobby of treating San Antonio's Negroes, and Mrs. Starr remembered his recurring anger whenever he couldn't get a patient into one of the two-dozen hospital beds available for the city's 25,000 Negroes. Why not, she thought, build and run a hospital for Negroes? As she put "it to herself...