Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved into our mental stomach. If Marshall Field, Hearst, McCormick or anyone wants stockholders in a new paper enterprise in Kansas City, he can figure up how many he can get by taking...
Therefore, I propose that all New Jersey citizens who choose to send their children to private schools, regardless of denomination, creed, or location, sue the Government of the State of New Jersey for the transportation involved. This might deeply encumber the State Treasury if, for instance, many children were sent to distant schools. But, qualitatively, are not all men equal in the eyes of our courts of justice, regardless of economic status or religious belief...
Project. In Washington, the Interior Department considered a request from a Brooklyn matron: "Dear Sirs: Will you send me some information my class is studing about...
Tension. Over in the Senate, the galleries were nearly empty. During the week, the Senate had managed to approve the appointment of Lewis W. Douglas as Ambassador to Britain, send the Military Merger Bill to the Armed Services Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually...
Amid shouts, plump Arthur Creech-Jones, Colonial Secretary, tried to placate the members. He had no authority to grant a reprieve; but he would ask the King's representative, the Gold Coast's Governor. "Tell him!" boomed several M.P.s. Red-faced, Creech-Jones promised to send the Governor a telegram, advising him of the House's "very strong feeling in all quarters...