Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days before his death, Franklin Roosevelt was thinking about the problem of peace and of international dealing for peace. To his friend, Senator Claude Pepper, he wrote from Warm Springs this statement of practical philosophy...
...Patients. Congress has authorized $500,000,000 worth of new hospitals for the 15,000,000-odd World War II veterans who will be eligible for care in them. But a series of hearings last winter convinced the Senate's Pepper Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education (TIME, Jan. 15) that buildings are not enough. Preliminary findings: i) salaries in veterans' hospitals are too low to attract good doctors and nurses (doctors start at $3,200); 2) "hospitals are often isolated geographically and medically"; 3) the personnel shortage is severe...
...cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough oil in Spain." When Strong bought a cord of wood, Rockefeller studied...
...Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill promptly rose to reply. Their potshots had little effect. But meanwhile Senator Taft got involved in a terrible spat with Columnist Lippmann who is often pro-administration...
...First Day. First off, Henry Wallace was left with almost no high-placed Administration bigwig to fight for him publicly. His on-the-scene supporters were all in the New Deal wing in the Senate, headed by Florida's Pepper and Montana's Murray. But they are not strategists. Thus it fell to Majority Leader Alben Barkley, abed in Naval Hospital with an ulcerated eye, to get up and lead the Wallace fight. First thing Barkley did was to demand a pro-Wallace statement from the White House. It was not immediately forthcoming...