Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform and the keynote speech were the promissory note; the collateral would appear when the candidate was chosen. The man the Republicans nominated would determine the genuineness of the oratory. The nation watched with curiosity and hope...
They bought everything from racetrack tickets to cemetery plots; they even started paying old doctors' bills. Some people, like the oldster who lit his pipe with a 50-mark note last week, literally burned their money. Black-market prices soared: probably for the last time, one U.S. cigarette sold for 50 marks. After the reform, it was hoped, the cigarette-for three years Germany's generally accepted exchange medium-would again be something you smoked...
Bill Jenner took his beating jauntily. Said he to Governor Gates: "Ralph, I still operate on the principle that to the victor belong the spoils. I salute you." On that note, he returned to the U.S. Senate...
...committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...
Occasionally, as last year, a note of political significance has entered the proceedings. In 1743, Samuel Adams, speaking to a Commencement Day audience that included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original...