Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Thomas E. Dewey (at Albany) : "I was quite surprised by the very low vote. It looks as though two or three million Republicans stayed home, out of overconfidence. That one fact stands out from the returns...
Other early legislation would call for more social security. Already before Congress is a recommendation to extend social security to 20 million U.S. citizens not covered by it now, and to double fhe benefits now paid...
...party had polled a meager 1,116,390 votes-far short of the 20 million he had predicted last April, still far short of the 4,000,000 he had originally set as his goal. He had run badly in industrial states like Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan; his 184,714 votes in California amounted to less than half of what had been expected...
...book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with a pocket big enough for a whiskey bottle; Now I get stacks of letters, asking what...
Half of a million dollar estate willed to the University a year ago by Dr. Harry L. Frevert '05 may go to Eva Jean Schulz, who claims to be his widow by virtue of a common law marriage...