Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekend. The cerements were laid out, the casket prepared for a routine political burial-this time of Premier Edgar Faure, his eight-month-old government and his policy of reform for Algeria. But in their villages and provincial towns, the Deputies made a disconcerting discovery: their constituents were sick and tired of government crises. Worse, with elections scheduled for next year, the voters seemed ready to vent their displeasure on the Deputies themselves...
...others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet, longtime French High Commissioner in Germany and a "living immortal" of the Academic Franchise (see below), declared: "[Another crisis] would justify the calumnies which depict us, in all languages of the world, as the 'sick man of Europe,' the worm-eaten plank to which it would be folly to continue to cling . . . Already abroad we are being stricken from the role of great peoples...
...Just after the news," wrote Pearson, "Vice President Nixon went to the home of his intimate friend [Deputy Attorney General] William Rogers, at 7007 Glenbrook Road, in nearby Maryland. This was in the dark hours when the President was so sick he was blinded in both eyes . . . The Vice President went there . . . to ask Rogers to make a legal ruling that he, as Vice President, could take over the powers of the President." Only timely intervention by the backers of Tom Dewey, who was traveling in Spain with Attorney General Brownell, said Pearson, had foiled this plot to seize power...
...strongest argument in favor of industrial chaplains is made in the plants where they are already at work. North Carolina's Fieldcrest Mills started its program six years ago, and neither management nor workers has regretted the move. At Fieldcrest, the Rev. James K. McConnell visits sick workers, keeps in contact with retired employees, tours the plant daily and makes himself available to people who need help to solve their troubles. All counseling is strictly secret, strictly voluntary. Chaplain McConnell, a Southern Baptist, has an average of three counseling talks a day with Fieldcrest workers on problems ranging from...
...Andersonville went perhaps 50,000 men. Its 20-odd acres were stripped of trees, and there was no shelter except the crude tents that could be fashioned from coats and blankets. Guards were ordered to shoot prisoners who strayed beyond a certain line. The sick died where they lay. Those prisoners who carried corpses for burial beyond the wall were considered lucky: it meant a little fresh air. After the war, the man who ran Andersonville, Captain Henry Wirz, was tried and executed for war crimes...