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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind. In the Senate, no jingoistic ranters sawed the air. Only one Senator-Nevada's Republican George W. Malone -said publicly that he would vote against it. Most of the nation's editorialists gave their sober approval-with the notable exception of the nation's largest newspaper, the America Firsting New York Daily News. Snapped the Daily News: "Uncle Sam or Sap is now . . . making official his scrapping of President George Washington's solemn warning to this country to keep out of foreign entanglements." The Omaha World Herald slyly demolished that classic argument by predicting: "Washington...
...prosperity of seven fat years. The county's 14,000 citizens had socked away $10 million in Government bonds during the war, "and it's still back there in those lockboxes, at least $8 or $9 million of it," said Russell Martin, president of Tipton's largest bank. Many mortgages had been paid off in full; the per capita debt was the lowest in 25 years...
...became adept at tennis and polo. One of his four royal wives is British-born. The Amir, however, has never been strongly attracted by British ideas on democracy. He was one of India's most despotic rulers. When India was partitioned and Bahawalpur became Pakistan's second largest state, the Amir became one of the Moslem League's sharpest thorns...
Most startling, perhaps, for U.S. moviegoers are the shots of India's modern commerce and industry: the streamlined tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...
Physically, Kirkland offers no illuminated tower nor television set. Its library is unique, however. Converted from a Colonial house, it contains nine small rooms, particularly well stocked in history, French, and German. One of the largest House record collections adjoins an unsurpassed listening room with a high fidelity player. In addition there are two music practice rooms and a photographic dark room...