Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They soon found out. The U.S. had deported him to Austria as a visa violater. There, said a cool State Department announcement, "Barsov is now being given an opportunity freely to determine whether he wishes to return to the Soviet Union or remain under U.S. jurisdiction in Europe...
...Navy officer. He was the candidate of 86-year-old G.O.P. Boss Joe Grundy. "Your ancestors and mine established a new idea of government," said Saylor. "That new idea of government lasted 175 years-until the present Administration in Washington, which came out for the Socialist welfare state...
...political campaign still more than a year away, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft had taken to the hustings. The very first day he got down to business; a committee met him at the Cloverleaf and escorted him to a nearby hall where he addressed 350 delegates to the state convention of the Polish Legion of American Veterans...
Truman Democrats by his blunt attacks on the socialistic tendencies of the Fair Deal. He stood for a conservative-liberal philosophy which could support certain federal grants for social welfare, but opposed any further spread of federal power or of the welfare state. On these issues the G.O.P. had a case to make, and in the Senate Ohio's Taft made it. His fellow Ohioan, Clarence Brown, called him "Mr. Republican." To Big Labor and the Truman Democrats he was both a leading Republican and an uncompromising obstacle in their paths: they were determined to knock...
...State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson. A sign on his desk reads: "The politician thinks about the next election; the statesman thinks about the next generation." Joe was plainly thinking about the next election. Said he: "There ain't nobody going to get me out of this race...