Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas and the huge industrial development that began on the Pacific Coast a decade ago was apparent to Griffith and Elson, who are from the Pacific Northwest. Said Griffith: "No matter how much you think you are prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money as if they believed in free...
...roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...
...note read in part: "I have not been able to (and don't think I will) get the top secret FBI report which I described to Michael on Soviet . . . intelligence archives . . . When I saw the report I breezed through it rapidly, remember very little. It was about 115 pages in length; summarized first Soviet 'intelligence' activities, including Martens, Lore, Poyntz, Altschuler, Silvermaster...
...skip these chapters, if you will, and, if you will, read only the excerpts from actual testimony. This is the meat of the matter, and the point must not be missed. The point is that a private enterprise system is making the fatal mistake of impinging on the one really sacred piece of private property: private opinion. If nothing else, Rogge's book is a reminder of a truth we must not forget; that in America, freedom is, among other things, a state of mind...
...years after his death, Hawthorne was principally famous as the author of children's stories. Generations of schoolchildren read The Great Stone Face without appreciating the political allegory (and the attack on Whig Daniel Webster) that it contained...