Word: nook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having established Cordon as a villain, Neuberger moved into the second phase, in mid-September, with his own campaign promises. With Maurine driving a rented blue Ford, the Neubergers traveled to every nook and corner of the state, to Philomath, Gold Beach, Madras, Looking glass, Yachats, Yoncalla, Bonanza, Cornucopia, Garibaldi, Grande Ronde, Depot Bay, and even to Sisters and Fossil. Wherever possible they stayed with local citizens, and Dick invariably managed to establish a personal identification with his audiences ("As my close friend Amos Buck of the Butchers' Union knows . . ."). With his sloppy green corduroy jacket and his pleasantly...
...when Donham became dean, neither a strong faculty nor a leadership tradition existed. In fact, the school itself hardly existed. Scattered in every nook and cranny of the University, it had no money, a skeleton faculty, an inadequate curriculum, and an unrealistic approach to business education...
...promising is the Republican outlook in Idaho, where Senator Henry Dworshak, fresh from his sorry showing in the Army-McCarthy hearings, is being pressed by Glen Taylor, the Progressive Party's 1948 candidate for Vice President, who has yodeled his campaign message in the state's every nook and chasm...
...astonishing economic comeback. With a bulging treasury and credits piling up in every continent, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Shäffer announced sweeping tax reductions that will enable Germans themselves to buy more of the Volkswagen, cameras and other good things that their factories are exporting to every nook & cranny of the Western world. A staunch free-enterpriser, Shäffer believes that a capitalist economy should be kind to capitalists. His tax cuts especially gave relief to 1) heavy industry (corporation taxes were reduced from 60% to 45%*) and 2) West Germany's crop of postwar millionaires...
...expected the Russians to agree to a German settlement. But there had been real hope for Austria. By the Moscow Declaration of 1943, Russia had agreed that Austria should be treated as a liberated country. After 374 discussions over seven years, "every conceivable nook and cranny," as Dulles pointed out. had been explored. All that remained to be done was to reach agreement on five disputed articles. Chancellor Julius Raab was willing and even eager to pledge Austria's neutrality. Foreign Minister Leopold Figl was sent to Berlin prepared to accept the heavy price demanded by the Russians...