Word: rep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing additional should have been necessary. If, said Admiral Turner, the Pacific commander had complied with those orders, the U.S. losses would have been materially reduced-"and there was a good chance that we could have inflicted considerable damage on the Japanese fleet." (Cracked Pennsylvania's Democratic Rep. John Murphy: "I have never seen a Monday morning quarterback who ever lost a game...
Coming & Going. In Magoffin County, Ky., primary candidates for County Judge included Attorney Brack Howard (Rep.) and the Rev. Brack Howard...
...suffering the handi caps of space and copyright that usually beset anthologists, hive included only fragments of each author's work. Marcel Proust, whose Remembrance of Things Past totals 2,265 pages, is represented by five pages ("The Death of Bergotte") from his The Captive. Andre Gide is rep resented by six pages from Les Nouvelles Nourritures. Thomas Mann contributes 13 pages from The Beloved Returns, 17 from Freud, Goethe, Wagner. Benedetto Croce is represented not by his philosophic works but by eight pages from European Literature in the Nineteenth Century...
...purged by the war-fire, is coming up; the strength lies in her and nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down." One Issue. Two Leaders. Dr. Lin sees in this war only one issue, "Empire versus freedom." He sees two world leaders rep resenting opposite sides of this issue -"Chiang Kaishek, for whom 'patriotism is not enough,' and Winston Churchill, for whom it is." Says Dr. Lin : "The issue of empire versus freedom is dividing...
Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...