Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Hugo may have called Fabre the "Homer of the Insects," but Fabre was not so much a Homer as a St. Paul. The latter dug into the Old Testament to base his conclusions on revelation. Fabre . . . drew from the insect world conclusions which have not only never been explained but which have been ignored. To him there was revelation in nature...
...having business connections with his good friend, Fixer John Maragon, who had made a good thing out of his White House connections (TIME, Sept. 5). He brushed the famed seven deep freezers off as gifts which were "an expression of friendship and nothing more . . ." He swore that he had never taken a dishonest nickel...
Herbert C. Hathorn, a former Agriculture Department administrator, who had testified to the committee that Vaughan had threatened to "get his job" if he didn't' help the Allied Molasses Co. out of a jam. The President's aide protested that he had never tried to influence a public official and even went as far as to wonder in earnest tones "whether someone impersonated me in a telephone conversation with Mr. Hathorn...
...cried Vaughan (it was obvious that he had heard of Costello, but just had never imagined his name would crop up in the hearing), "the New York gangster! ... I didn't know how he got in here...
...vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district-Indiana, Armstrong and Cambria counties. She was campaigning to fill the unexpired term of her son. Colonel Robert Lewis Coffey Jr., World War II fighter pilot, killed last April...