Word: messe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people want constructive action coupled with campaign promises. In the personality and record of Hubert H. Humphrey the people of Minnesota saw the dynamo of action needed for the fulfilling of their dream-the human-welfare state . . . They wanted a clean-up on the housing mess, the health problem, the tax situation, the labor snarl and half a dozen other national stumbling blocks...
...replacing everything up to the outer shell. The cost would be about $7,000,000 (just seven times the original estimate). Harry Truman wondered if Senator Dennis Chavez would do what he could about it in the Committee on Public Works. Said Harry Truman: "The White House is a mess...
...anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped. But he wanted a showdown between Church and State. Now there will hardly be a way out of this mess...
...would be idle to pin labels on these people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
...most of the magazine's capital, including $30,000 from Doris Duke. Hiring & firing had taken a whimsical turn: Playwright William Saroyan, hired as a drama reviewer, was fired before he got a single review into print. Ince had not collected for many ads, and distribution was a mess: Theatre Arts, seldom to be seen in the Times Square theater district, was going begging on newsstands in Chicago flophouse neighborhoods. Yet somehow, circulation had risen from...