Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader McNaughton is right as rain. In explaining the big Democratic vote in normally Republican farm areas, TIME failed to point out that many U.S. farmers were not as lucky as Farmer Roth. Those who did not have enough Government-approved storage of their own could qualify for Government loans on their grain surplus only by storing it in Government bins. When the Republican Both Congress refused to appropriate funds to build additional Government storage space, many farmers were unable to find room for all their crops, hence were unable to get crop loans on their surplus, and voted...
...over, Tallulah kept Sharland on for two hours while she delivered the speech she later made for President Truman. Says Photographer Sharland: "She was very nice, very sweet, and very cooperative." Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger felt the same way about Tallulah and told her so when, at one point in their interview, she stopped suddenly and asked: "Do you all like...
...resolution formally damning all Communistic activities. A sick and uncertain Murray gave only cautious approval. A few months later he called labor agents who peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber of Red propaganda, Michael Quill, boss of the transport workers, into taking the pledge...
...Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach...
Each One Teach One. The UNESCO majority, led by the U.S., got action on one point. They were determined not to re-elect Dr. Huxley to his $15,000-a-year job. To replace him for a six-year term they chose, by a vote of 30 to 3, 46-year-old Jaime Torres Bodet, Foreign Minister of Mexico. Energetic, curly-topped Torres Bodet, who speaks French, English and Spanish with equal ease, is a poet who published his first works 'at the age of 16, but is no idle dreamer...