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...most dedicated fighter for pay-as-you-go fiscal conservatism, had decided not to stand for reelection this year. His reason: he had promised his wife that 1952 would be his last campaign. "Since then," wrote Harry Byrd, "she has suffered a crippling illness and is an invalid; it is our desire to spend our lives together at home in Virginia...
With style and flourish Arranger Bales presents The Battle Cry of Freedom, a rallying song to match the South's cap-tossing Bonnie Blue Flag, and the inevitable Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some of the ditties are wryly humorous, like The Invalid Corps, which pokes fun at the era's equivalent of 4-Fs. But most songs hark sentimentally back, like Aura Lea, to languishing sweethearts or, unabashedly, to home...
...second and third acts, the characters are no longer types, of any description, and Schary intricately weaves the problems of F.D.R.'s drive to return despite his mother's insistence on an invalid squirearchy, of Eleanor Roosevelt's development as an individual, and of their daughter Anna's own growth as a person...
...serves. Since FPC raised no objections during the usual six months' waiting period, United raised its rates. But then the city of Memphis, one of the cities that was hit by the raise, appealed to the federal court. The court held that United's increase was invalid because the company failed to get the consent of its customers. The court ordered United to return the millions it had collected in rate increases since it put the raise into effect...
...participated in the "Crime of the Century," and if his parole would not raise a public clamor. It is to be hoped that Governor Stratton can transcend political expediency and not again veto the expected parole. If he does block Leopold's release, he is in effect declaring invalid the idea of the parole system...