Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt mulled over a career woman's question for her newspaper readers. "Do I want to be called Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Of course, I want to be called the latter. ... I have never made any name for myself...
...Ball shocked Republicans by bolting Dewey for Roosevelt because the latter's foreign policy was more in accord with his own. But on domestic issues, he was far from being a New Dealer. He shared Bob Taft's concern over breakneck, "dogood" legislation which he thought might destroy certain American principles, like liberty...
...question of Germany's eastern frontier-whether the boundary shall remain along the Order and Neisse rivers, where Moscow insists the Potsdam agreement permanently located it, or whether the line shall be moved a few hundred miles further to the east, toward the old, pre-war German frontier. This latter proposal was advanced by Mr. Byrnes, and Secretary Marshall last week pledged himself to follow the Stuttgart policies straight down the line...
...also looking for art work," Watt said. "But no abstraction and no cortoons, in spite of the under-developed state of the latter art here...
...states, by diverting funds from pork barrel projects or dust and interest collecting treasury acounts, could increase their school budgets and raise salaries. To refuse to do the latter on grounds of economy would be to practice a very foolish economy indeed. But other states, because of tax laws which throw part of the school financing burden upon local communities, while at the same time severely restricting the possible sources of local revenue, impose an impossible problem for themselves. Similarly, too much state taxation is laid upon real estate values and not enough upon income an incongruous situation if finer...