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...Europe, but on a businesslike basis. A lot of U.S. money and goods had already been poured into Europe-more than $8.6 billion since war's end. The question was: How much good had it done? From now on Americans were not financing any charitable pig-in-a-poke. There was not going to be any WPA in Europe...
Ernie was not being realistic. Neither Australia nor Canada wanted to join Britain in pursuing the will-o'-the-wisp of an imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...
...tried bunting down the unprotected third-base line, then reasoned correctly that Boston's Red Sox were not paying him $75,000 a season to bunt. He tried hitting to left field, and managed to poke three home runs over the left-field wall, but confessed, "It didn't feel natural." To make matters worse, Rival Joe DiMaggio was having a big season, and such talented johnny-come-latelies as Ralph Kiner and Jackie Robinson were making the headlines...
...Counter Poke. But Politician Truman would surely have another Republican tax bill on his desk in 1948. His budget review got a rough reception by Republicans. The surplus, said New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was proof that "the country was robbed of a tax reduction by purely political votes." Notably lacking was any Democratic cheering over the tax outlook. Said one close friend of Politician Truman: "His neck is too far out for an election year. He's got guts, that's sure, but I'm sorry he said...
...little lady with the bright grey eyes had peculiar tastes and peculiar ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...