Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting determined opposition. The special interests are fighting us just as if they never heard of November the 2nd." The special interests were trying to save the Taft-Hartley Act, he said. They were fighting his welfare measures, blocking the low-rent housing program, trying to keep minimum wages at starvation levels and destroy the farm price support program. The special interests were working through lobbies, editorial pages, columnists and commentators. "This one-sided barrage of propaganda seems overwhelming at first. There are no full-page ads on our side. In fact, all we have on our side...
...friend since they were soldiers together at Fort Sill in 1917. Everybody in the room knew that he loved wisecracking Harry Vaughan, and that he despised Drew Pearson, whom he once called a liar.† Once, Pearson wrote some critical remarks about Mrs. Truman and Margaret; the President never forgave...
...shipping men politely called it pilferage). They pad stevedoring payrolls. They shake down truckers and they turn loose their bookies, loaded-dice men, six-forfive boys, and kickback collectors on the dock-wallopers for nobody knows how many more millions. Proud to Know Ya. The cops, some how, have never bothered them too much. The "hoods" get along fine with Joe Ryan, the loudmouthed lifetime boss (at$20,000 a year) of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Some of the hoods hold cards in the union and go to big dinners for Joe. Joe is touched by this...
...make nuisances of themselves. When Churchill rose to address an open-air throng of 15,000 in front of the Brussels bourse, about 150 Red hecklers scattered through the crowd tried to drown him out with shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with a cigar in one hand, a bunch of tulips in the other...
From time to time, his voice broke. Again & again the tall (6 ft.), robust man broke into tears, wiping his face with his handkerchief. "Believe me," he sobbed, "I am ashamed to beg for mercy. Give me a chance to correct my errors . . . Never in Bulgaria's history was there so much religious freedom as now . . . Christians and Communists are two brothers who have bypassed each other, but they will find each other some...