Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Background. To solve the U.S. labor problem, Harry Truman had picked a man whose career was a curious mixture of the dull and the intriguing. As a Senator, Lew Schwellenbach had been among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has...
Wisconsin-born, 51-year-old Lew Schwellenbach is a man with a purpose. A boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the...
Liberal spending, if necessary to create federally financed jobs, had been part & parcel of the original Murray-Wagner proposal; an unbalanced budget had been the financial keystone of Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's administrations. Federal outgo and income had not matched since June 1930, just after...
There were reports that Crowley may have written a separate letter about FEA. Whether he did or not, insiders surmised that he was furious on two counts: 1) because FEA's handling of surplus property abroad had gone to the State Department; 2) because he had been fighting a...
With a new rule permitting forward passes from anywhere behind the scrimmage line (instead of five yards back), coaches were more offense-minded than ever. A handful of holdouts, like Cornell and Penn State, scurried to the yardage-producing T formation. Oregon, Vanderbilt, Princeton and Baylor decided to rejoin the...