Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Harry Truman: "The U.S. has no intention, in the event of aggression, of allowing the peoples of Western Europe to be overrun before its own power can be brought to bear. This program ... is a tangible assurance of our purpose."
This week, after costing taxpayers $3,700,000,000, the 52-20 club lost its charter. Harry Truman and many governors-who did not want to dip into their state's own unemployment compensation funds-wanted 52-20 continued. But Congress failed to act before the law expired.
To a large extent, Hugh Scott, an agreeable, pipe-smoking Philadelphia lawyer, was a belated casualty of last November's election. Hand-picked by Candidate Tom Dewey last summer in payment for Pennsylvania's timely convention support, he had served out the campaign as a sort of front...
He was never a particularly distinguished jurist; it was not his game. But he did make his voice heard in defense of civil liberties-in which he included the right of Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese...
The patriarch himself had taken time out from his Senate duties to intervene in the campaign-something he had not done since his own gubernatorial walk-in in 1925. He bustled about, trumpeting for State Senator John S. Battle.