Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Deep South was a different story. Not since Reconstruction had Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi sent a Republican to Capitol Hill. But in 1964, the only Republican on Mississippi's congressional ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer...
As President, Hoover utilized federal power as an instrument to support the private economy far more than any President before him. At his urging, Congress created a Federal Farm Board, backed by $500 million in federal funds, which came to the aid of farm marketing cooperatives after the market crash...
REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A good writer, MacArthur comes through as a proud, realistic and yet oddly romantic man...
Korean mistresses-some of them pretty, college-educated girls between 17 and 25 who can find no other jobs-can be established in a hooch for about $150 a month, not counting food. Though this is more than a private's monthly pay, an enterprising G.I. can make up...
REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The grand strategist concentrates on World War II, the occupation of Japan, and Korea. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A...