Word: ly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent asked if that included the stabilization fund. Truman replied quickly that it included the program as sent to Congress by the President (Roosevelt). Again he said that was as plain as he could make it. By now the scribbling correspondents were well aware that friend ly Harry Truman was laying his views clearly on the line...
...more: he completely and final ly dissociated himself from isolationist elements in the G.O.P. And he sought to disabuse any who might think that the G.O.P., under President Dewey, would be for a soft peace. Said he: "The military defeat of Germany and Japan must be complete and crushing...
Placid Surface. Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity-and even with some good humor. Ration boards stayed open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees...
...covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle Charles again routs Dr. Smyth since Hamilton vigorous ly attacked the Federalist-inspired Sedition Act of 1798. "Let us not establish a tyranny," said Hamilton. "Energy is a very different thing from violence." All of this is a far cry from the eco nomic interpretation of the Constitution...
...born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming in, after the war, under the Four Freedoms." Walker was literally shot...