Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myths and legends have been written about fat wartime wages and savings. These are being disproven by the reports, from the Federal Reserve Board and Bureau of Agricultural Economics showing that the rich got richer and the poor remained poor. One of every five families in 1945 had less than $1000 income; another group of more than one-fifth had less than $2000 income. Wartime savings are concentrated almost exclusively in families well above these income levels...
Campbell further agreed with the revisionists that the system of appointing a nominating committee was a poor one and professed to be looking forward to seeing it replaced in the new constitution. He reiterated that he had no authority to put aside the constitution at will...
...these other alternatives, one so risky, the other so filled with doom, seemed poor payment to the Western World for the blood, sweat and tears of a war just ended. Henry Wallace has minted a brighter coin. Russian Communism and the free-enterprise system, he said, could live "one with another in a profitable and productive peace." U.S. democracy and Russian Communism could divide the world into spheres of influence and get along. Wallace offered "peace for our time." The coin was bright, but it had a faintly familiar and counterfeit ring...
...same thing goes for Tom Dewey. He's no American; he's a New Yorker. . .. Like Willkie before him, he was put up by the international bankers in New York ... to save England and British Imperialism. ... I could have elected Willkie if he campaigned as an American.... Poor fellow, he thought Dewey beat him in the Wisconsin primary ... I beat him. . . . That's Tribune territory over there...
...refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...