Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure Cure. In Paterson, N.J., Arthur Pacific went out for a short beer, got shanghaied to Naples, spent four years in Nazi prison camps, finally came home, took the pledge...
...Wholly Wrong." An hour later Harry Truman took his stand. To his press conference, he said calmly: "In July and August when there was no price control on meat, meat was abundant. Now there is price control and meat is short. It is natural, therefore, for the people to blame the shortage on price control. This line of reasoning is wholly wrong...
...Peace . . . & Progress." In short, the President refused to play the Kelly-McCormack brand of politics. Perhaps he thought his way was better politics. Bob Hannegan gulped, threw away the resolution and announced that he and the executive committee stood "100% behind the President." The armed forces promised to help some; instead of taking 25% of the available legitimate meat they would take only 10%. Ed Kelly and the other committeemen passed a statement of policy: "Peace, production and progress-these are the watchwords of the Democratic Party for 1946 . . . under the inspired leadership of Harry Truman." Glumly they went home...
...short, as of last week, the G.O.P. was far from sure of taking the Senate. But if labor and leftists, sulked, if the vote were light, and if voters generally took out their disgust with Harry Truman on Democratic candidates, then the G.O.P. could be a shoo...
...auxiliary sloop Linda was short and squat and broad of beam, and neither spic nor span as she cut a bow wave through Miami's gilt-edged Biscayne Bay last week. Nonetheless, she was a proud ship. She had borne 18 Estonians, storm-tossed on the dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister...