Word: regular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil rights program, believed that he no longer had any right to claim Thomas Jefferson. In Mississippi last week, 5,000 local rebels gathered to brandish the Confederate flag and issue a secession call for all "true, white Jeffersonian Democrats...
...Ordeal of a Communist. Marx's life was veined by the ordeal of his own poverty. With the egotism of genius, he refused to be turned "into a [bourgeois] money-making machine." He never had a regular job, and only once tried to get one; a railroad company turned him down as a clerk because of his bad handwriting. Once he reported to Engels: "I can no longer leave the house, because my clothes are in pawn." Another time he was arrested on suspicion of theft when he tried to pawn his wife's family silver (it bore...
Policemen, who during the ban had reported to work two hours earlier than scheduled to aid in traffic duty, have been ordered to come at their regular hour henceforth...
University House watchmen work on a system of rotation with one regular man for each of the six Houses. On the regular each of the six Houses. On the regular guard's night off a swing man takes over the shift. And at 12:45 o'clock the night janitors go off, end the University police shoulder the whole burden of keeping order and guiding high-stepping students to their cubieles...
...staffers confessed to running a downtown office where they took fees for getting publicity into the Times. Several were paid regular retainers by politicians. One reporter was charging $2 a head to Tacomans who wanted their pictures in the paper. Owners Ed and Jim Scripps, grandsons of the late E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, did little in the way of removing temptation by raising wages. Said Ed Scripps: "I didn't know reporters were taking money but things weren't as bad on the Times as they are on other papers on the West Coast...