Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...
Died. Mrs. William B. Weeden, 88, first deaf child in the U. S. to be taught to speak and read lips; in Providence, R. I. Daughter of Governor Henry Lippitt, she was stricken at four after an attack of scarlet fever, had Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Educator Horace Mann to teach...
...cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were at the apogee...
...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...
Such statements, highly suggestive to students of Goethe, will appeal still more intricately to readers who are interested in what degree Thomas Mann identifies himself with Goethe and uses him, here, as a mask for talking...