Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic 81st Congress, he had never had an ideological majority. Of the 24 major measures he asked for in January, Congress in five months had enacted only one-extension of rent control...
Conservatism in politics never held a man back in the American Legion. And in the Legion, Louis Johnson reached the top in 1932, taking over in the unsettled era after the bonus march on Washington...
...President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
...penny with the index finger and then roll it in the general direction of the ledge, preferably with a sweeping motion from the side which is more conductive to learners. On a smooth surface, a tossing, rather than a rolling method is recommended, but on a rough surface one never knows which way the penny will bounce when it lands...
Ducey's only complaint about his men was that in spite of their abundant will to win they could never be persuaded to lay off cigarettes, liquor, and bad hours. Had the Eliot oarsmen concentrated on keeping in condition, they could have been undefeated. Ducey thinks...