Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...
Camp v. Camp. Many a Friend believes that Philosopher Blanshard has "outrun his Guide" and landed plump in the middle of an "unsoundness." But there is little chance that Quakers will disown him. His views too clearly reflect the peculiar conflicting feelings of Friends toward World War II. Several Quaker families have one son in uniform, another in a C.O. camp. One Philadelphia Meeting has as many young members in one as the other, corresponds with them all. Last spring a Long Island Meeting wrote this facing-both-ways sentiment into its minutes: "We hold in equal respect any member...
Appalled at these reports, N.E.A.'s retiring President Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a plump Minneapolis schoolmarm, spoke warmly of Britain's example. The British school budget this year is the biggest in its history (?108,000,000), and the government considers education so important that it has recalled 77,000 teachers from the armed forces...
...debate: the Lords agreed (in principle) to add some $500,000,000 a year to Britain's budget for such family allowances. The Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...
Business Manager Jim McNulty has drawn in a pleasingly plump crowd of subscribers, who will receive as a reward for paying up early a copy of the yearbook with their names stamped in gilt on the front cover...