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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screamed tough, wiry Communist Leader Otello Barbi: "You cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only...
...reasoned patriotism" in his pupils, without misleading them into thinking that the tales were sober history. Taught the right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...
...list of possible successors included most of the same old names: ex-Senator Sam Jackson of Indiana; Oklahoma's Governor Bob Kerr; mousy Les Biffle, the Senate Democrats' masterminding policy committee director; New Dealing Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, who has been mentioned for every vacancy from the Supreme Court to the War Department. One old name missing from the list this time was Hannegan's young, exuberant executive assistant, Gael Sullivan, who left his chances in a Rhode Island district court last month when he pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving (scaled down from drunken...
...name on the succession list was that of New Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. Like Hannegan, Clint Anderson was not feeling up to snuff. Suffering from diabetes, he had doubled his insulin treatments under pressure of his Cabinet job. His real ambition is to go to the Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...
...Joke, Ma'am. This week, in a limited gesture of good will, Gromyko took time out from a busy week to answer, in part, a list of written questions. These facts about him were revealed...