Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
...short pants, James E. Glynn used to shunt wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards...
McCloskey noted that defects in the Bill of Rights include: its failure to protect citizens from excesses of the state government, outdated clauses, commission of a provision to guarantee the right to vote, and limitations inherent in its enforcement by the judiciary...
...fill in for Preston tonight with sophomore Morgie Hatch. This will be Hatch's first varsity game, for he broke his left wrist in a pre-season practice injury. Joe Kittredge will take over Preston's old position of center, while Hatch will play left wing and Bill Garrity right wing...