Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words, as well as for your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just isn't the word...
...Hanratty "throws the Communists out of his Veterans' League." Committee Chairman C. E. Pickering added his own ultimatum to Hanratty: clean house or quit. Hanratty said he would not force resignation of two Communist officials in his league, bristled: "If they want to get me out, they'll have to pick me up and toss...
...Flung cleared his throat, "First, a prediction. I'm kind O'Leary of my crystal ball, because Douglas is dirty, but it's Plain that the Redis open for a Crimson win. We'll Rusch them so hard they won't know whether they're in Madison Square Gardiner Hanover, Markhamy words, the score will be Harvard 20 Dartmouth...
...When and if the next depression comes, we've got to be prepared with a basic economic policy that outs deeper than the New Deal. We'll need a new New Deal to fit a new period. The long term problem must not be minimized, of course, for from a short term point of view it's clear that we're not going to get much out of the 80th Congress. The best we can do is raise those issues which will enable us to get a better 81st...
...this election reflects a general dissatisfaction with the treatment of post-war economic problems by the Administration. The American public, however, is certainly not fed up with planning for good. If the Republicans win in 1948, and if we have another serious depression in the early 1950's we'll have another period of planning--in fact the largest ever on a peace-time scale...