Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the voters went right on liking prohibition anyhow. The state's church-going United Drys (many of whom fasted and prayed for victory at the polls) were fiercely proud of living in a prohibition state.* So, naturally, were the bootleggers. And many an Oklahoma drinker liked prohibition too...
No doubt of it-there really was a considerable influx of U.S. lawmakers to Spain last week, and more loomed on the horizon. Speaking through its Madrid embassy, the U.S. State Department set the situation in its proper light: the visitors were just "distinguished Americans on a private tour."
Squirrel & Cage. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps had opened for the government with an able but unexciting defense of his devaluation of the pound. When his turn to speak came, Winston Churchill peered owlishly over his spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift...
There was much more. But in effect what Churchill had to say was that abundance does not come to a country that tries to have economic equality by fiat. If Britain wanted prosperity, let her vote the Conservatives back in.
Spring or Autumn? By 342 votes to 5 (the Conservatives and Liberals abstaining) the government's money measures were approved. Winston Churchill's motion of censure was defeated 350 to 212. The merits and demerits of devaluation had been engulfed in a more urgent question: When would the...