Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painted an artistic word picture of the Depression, crammed with all the old phantoms: apple sellers stood disconsolately around street corners, the bonus marchers once more tried to storm Washington, mean-eyed sheriffs foreclosed mortgages across the land. In the background there was a steady rain of statistics showing that everybody, including business, was infinitely better off than in 1932. "Suppose," Dever cried, "the dinosaurs of political thought came into power! . . . Suppose these rugged individualists abandoned the farmer to the ravages of uncontrolled free enterprise, and the toiler to the mercies of the sweatshop of former days...
...Desire Me (Jo Stafford; Columbia LP). Songstress Stafford's voice is warmer than ever and just as true. Most of her eight numbers (I'm in the Mood for Love, Something to Remember You By, etc.) are lugubriously slow; Blue Moon and September in the Rain have more bounce...
...appearance at the dam got off to a wonderful beginning. The country around had been parched for weeks, but almost as the President began speaking, rain fell. "It looks like I really brought you good luck," he said. His speech was an appeal for Southern loyalty to the Democratic Party...
...Went to Washington's Griffith Stadium with Mrs. Truman to see a doubleheader between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. He sat patiently under an umbrella after rain stopped play in the fourth inning, munched a hot dog, and had a bottle of pop. But after an hour, Weather Prophet Truman gave up and left. His hunch was right. Another hour passed before the sun came out and the game was resumed...
...They're starting to hit us heavy this week," said Township Trustee Harold F. DeVault as he looked out at 175 Gary, Ind. steel strikers lining up in a drizzling rain. "Everybody is starting to apply for relief...