Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to castigate anyone unfairly, but I would like to know if you misquoted Henry Browne Wallace or if he really did say, "father gets castrated so often in print" [TIME, Oct. 10]. If he did, it is easy to believe that he "reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...session was the longest in peacetime since 1922, and it had been a stormy voyage. Harry Truman's Fair Deal often seemed about to founder with all its cargo. But the crew, checking over what was left after many an item had been jettisoned, found it amounted to a fair-sized package...
...refusals, Congress often showed better sense than Harry Truman in his requests, and sometimes it saved him later embarrassment. When he asked for an anti-inflation program (including wage & price controls, Government authority to build steel plants) at a time when deflation was obviously in progress, Congress brusquely threw it overboard, lock, stock & barrel. His demand for $4 billion in new taxes was similarly ignored; so was his request for $800 million for universal military training...
...directly to the people; working sometimes 16 hours a day, he would shake hands with everyone on the street, be present at every gathering i nthe city where he might find votes, distribute money to needy families in person. He claimed marvelous accomplishments and promised even more wonderful ones--often figments of his imagination; in 1932, when he had been active in the national campaign, he pledged to the voters that he would get 30 or maybe 60 millions in Federal relief for the State; the total relief ended up somewhere near...
These "crime doctor" examinations range from simple "views" to detailed autopsies of death cases in which there is suspicion of crime. The experts are asked whether an unexplained death is homicide, suicide, or accident, and more often than not they provide the answer. Occasionally they even point to the killer...