Word: rewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than such a clear-cut reward, the Oklahoman's reporters treasured a note sent by one of the redeemed-property owners to Reporter Van Dyke. "Congratulations on your nerve and efforts to expose this filthy tax resale. Thank God for a real heman, fair and honest...
...Truman Administration is unequivocally opposed to any Korean settlement which would give Formosa and United Nations membership to Communist China. "It will oppose any settlement . . . which would reward the aggressor in any manner whatsoever, and it will oppose the attempt of any nation or regime to shoot its way into the United Nations...
...York's famed Ritz-Carlton Hotel was created to reward the rich for being rich. With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, the Ritz breathed an atmosphere of continental elegance calculated to soothe the wrought-up millionaire. Vials of perfume sweetened its elevators. Its food was superb (Chef M. Diat's greatest achievement: the invention of Vichyssoise in 1912), and two waiters stood by, day & night, on every floor to take care of the hunger of its guests...
...Adult Males. In marked contrast to Christianity's promises of salvation, Jewish religious thought concerns itself primarily with the here & now, says Bernstein ; the Jew's chief reward for an ethical and God-centered life is the good life itself. "Most Jews have assented to the judgment of an olden rabbinic teacher who, after describing our earthly life as an antechamber, added, 'One hour of repentance and good deeds in this world is better than the whole life of the world to come...
...Calvin Coolidge) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Evanston, Ill. Son of a Civil War general and descendant of the William Dawes who rode with Paul Revere, he broke into politics by leading Illinois' Republican delegation into the McKinley camp in 1896, was appointed Comptroller of the Currency as a reward far his efforts. In World War I, his good friend, General John J. Pershing, made him chief purchasing officer for the A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under President Harding, the nation's first, won later fame...