Word: norness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Republican National Committee, representing the party of thrift, should practice what it preaches. So said G.O.P. Treasurer James Scott Kemper last week in a huffy letter of resignation to National Chairman Guy Gabrielson. Wrote Kemper: "We neither have collected the funds I thought we should collect nor have we...
There was neither minister nor music at the funeral service in Denver last week for Oscar O. Whitenack, 79, who for eight years edited the "Open Forum" column of the Denver Post. When a handful of mourners gathered at the flower-covered coffin they heard the voice of Whitenack himself...
During its ten weary weeks, The Hague conference had often seemed close to failure. The Indonesians had wanted as much independence as possible, the Dutch had wanted to retain as much sovereignty as possible. But eventually the Dutch and the Indonesian delegates grew to trust and understand each other. One...
Given half a chance, the pair of them, with their timing, their teamwork, their contrapuntal growls and purrs, can put any scene across. And now & then, amid large blobs of stage custard, Playwright Behrman obliges with a nice witticism about husbands or Boston. But unhappily there are long stretches in...
"They have called us names rais, grafters, politicians in their literature," he said. "If there is one thing I want to make clear, it is that I am not, nor ever was a politician," he continued. This defense brought applause, muffled somewhat by the cigar smoke.