Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burke puts in a long day. He comes on the job at seven in the morning and works through until seven-thirty at night, with a relief man taking over during lunch and dinner. He has been in the square for a little over six years, switching from a beat because of his health, and likes the work because it never gets dull...
...important difference--the Eighty-First Congress. The dominant note of suspicion and outright hostility between legislative and executive have vanished. Once more there is a victorious party in control of both governmental branches, a party elected on a platform of defined issues. There is consequently a feeling of relief in the country--even among opponents of the President--that the responsibility for future decisions rests squarely on one party. That party has a program, and, with the necessary party discipline and compromise, much of that program can be carried...
...President and to the U.S. people, enactment of the law was a relief. Despite the triumphs of World War II, the U.S. had never quite recovered from its indignation over the disastrous lack of military coordination first exposed at Pearl Harbor. Now, it seemed, the law would at long last force the services to get together...
...last, with expressions of relief, they sat down before blank pieces of bond paper and wrote down the names of Harry Truman and Alben Barkley. But as they rose quietly, to escape, the chairman called: "Now, we're not through yet. We all have to sign six copies." A handful of disappointed spectators began drifting away. When John Windsor departed, after three hours and 40 minutes, he grunted: "I don't think I've accomplished anything today but spend some of the state's money." (A fee of $8.32 plus $12 travel expenses...
Would the U.S., he was asked, continue purely relief ECA aid to a Communist or coalition regime in China? Not to an all-Communist government, he said emphatically. But Hoffman said he would recommend aid to a coalition which represented all the people: "If a [Chinese coalition] government were set up that gave the hope that conditions would exist which would permit continuation of free institutions, I think our government would be willing to accept a recommendation of continued...