Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready for a Change. Why had they all deserted? The reason was as old as American politics. They knew that too many voters agreed with New Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, a Republican-turned-Democrat who announced his return to the G.O.P. with the cry: "Our governmental house is choked with litter and rubbish. We must have a complete change of management. The two-party system was evolved to accomplish just that...
...prepared to take the risk-just as Roosevelt had in forcing Henry Wallace on the 1940 convention. Twice, he called Douglas in Oregon. Douglas asked for 48 hours to make up his mind. He well knew that if he resigned from the Supreme Court, he could never expect to return. A Republican Senate was unlikely to confirm the nomination of a defeated Democrat...
...propaganda bullets were as ineffective as the lead ones. The Red position worsened. After nine days' fighting, Communist Chen Yi abandoned the field, slipped north to his old Shantung stamping ground, where he could return to harassing hit-run tactics...
...Estimated time of arrival. *Wartime chief of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, whose present "quartermaster" job is something of a return of his beginnings: no West Pointer, Huebner started his Army career as a cook...
...Sprague Coolidge, the nation's No. 1 patroness of music, came to the rescue. She put up money for enough additional concerts to make the quartet's summer season possible. For one of the few times in her life, Mrs. Coolidge then asked a sentimental favor in return: would the quartet please call itself the Berkshire Quartet? It was the name which Mrs. Coolidge had given to the first string quartet she organized, 32 years...