Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pains me to confess to Miss Dora Plagemann, the handsomest teacher in San Francisco in my day, that for the order between Madison and Taft I must now take recourse to the World Almanac...
General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...through 25 must register; but only those 19 through 25 will be subject to induction. Up to 161,000 18-year-olds can escape a later draft call by volunteering for one year's active service in the U.S., six additional years in the reserves...
...from a Mrs. Frances Swadesh, a Manhattan housewife,* who had wired her opinion that the people "can congratulate themselves on having one honest Senator." With that, Maine's Owen Brewster was on his feet. The statement, he said, impugned the integrity of the Senate. Under the rules, Taylor must sit down. He did, and the filibuster was broken. At long last, the bill went to conference, where Senate leaders sternly hammered out a law which met military requirements in almost every respect...
...winds up with a notebook full of unconvincing case histories. Samples: ¶Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated, by the crime and a visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron is to make him see that he must return to his estranged wife. ¶ Fan French, an idle Westchester matron, is thrilled to realize that she had been accosted by the murderer before the crime. The upshot for her: unsatisfactory adultery with a radio announcer. ¶A young, mentally unbalanced, would-be writer is stimulated by the newspaper...