Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guard. In Glendale, Calif., Albin Nelson complained that his neighbor, Miss A. C. Madsen, not only kept him awake all night while she listened to the Republican Convention, she stuck a hose through the window and squirted him when he tuned in the Democrats...
...news picture from Phoenix, Ariz, (see cut) gave many a U.S. citizen a fascinated sense of peeking into a neighbor's photograph album. It showed Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger helping granddaughter Anna Eleanor Boettiger dress for her wedding last week to her college sweetheart, 25-year-old Van H. Seagraves...
Canada's policy towards her Indians was laid down 68 years ago. It was a simple policy: shove them off on reservations as wards of the government. As dutiful a guardian as its neighbor to the south, the government fed & clothed its wards and looked after their health. But the red men remained a race apart, with the rights of second-class citizens...
...gradual settling of the prairies ended Mennonite isolation. Good crops brought prosperity. Neighbor vied with Mennonite neighbor for such worldly possessions as automobiles and radios. Children brought home new ideas. Old-line Mennonites shook their heads over marriages outside the fold, the trend away from the soil. Then, in World War II, 50% of the young Mennonites deserted the sect's pacifist principles and joined the armed services...
Attitudes. Only 26.3% of the college graduates consider themselves Democrats, 38.3% Republicans, the rest independents. The college graduate was much more likely to vote in the last national election (78.9% did) than his non-college neighbor. And the chances are one in 20 that he ran for public office himself in the past four years...