Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short eleven weeks, Tom Dewey's slick team had firmly guided every one of the Governor's major proposals through the Republican-dominated legislature. It was a program that contrasted with the record of Congress GOPsters thus...
...short time, McNear was making money on his "two streaks of rust." Then he started battling labor unions. In 1929 he rode a cowcatcher through an engineers' picket line to break his first strike. In 1941, he took on the railroad brotherhoods again, rode out shootings and fires, finally refused Government arbitration and lost his road by seizure...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...
That described some of the things a democracy was not. But what was it? Marshall's definition told Vyacheslav Molotov that the U.S. would not stand for the expansion of Soviet totalitarianism to Germany. But it fell several miles short of telling the Germans what kind of society the U.S. would recognize as democratic...
...Lyon Mackenzie King looked all of his 72 years. Nor did his voice have its accustomed ring as he thanked members and added: "I shall do my best to be on hand right along, but if I should find it desirable to take things a little easy for a short time I know I may count on the understanding of ... the House...