Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-reception speech, delivered before 500 Bloomingtonians at a dinner in the Illinois Hotel, that made his fellow Democrats jump with joy. The speech was sometimes folksy (with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state...
...when he was given his first important party job: running Ed Martin's 1942 campaign for the governorship. When Martin won, Duff was rewarded with the post of state attorney general. When Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate, party bigwigs considered four other men for the governorship before they finally settled...
...that this fuse is burning rapidly, and only very sensational action can cut it and prevent the bomb from blowing up in our faces; 2) Mr. Tsuyee Pel; Governor of the Central Bank (China's official currency), felt the situation so dark a year ago that he resigned his post to devote his time to planning a now economy when the present one undergoes complete collapse; and 3) a member of the Consulate staff, recently back in this country . . . told me the situation was even worse than when I was there, and that those in American business firms and other...
More subtle is the lounge. She always comes up with a broken ski (see picture) or a slight sniffle and must retire to the ledge post haste. For her it's always either too icy or too cold to go skiing, and this "little ol' couch is so-o-o comfy...
...Ambassador to Venice Author-Diplomat Sir Henry Wotton. *From Tokyo, MacArthur put a prompt stop to a hopeful suggestion by the committee that he return to testify on the bill. Said MacArthur: "The heavy pressure of my duties renders it impracticable for me to leave my post here at the present time...