Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slivers & Martyrs. Other third parties have been more successful in nonpresidential years. The Greenback Party, which clamored for cheap money, elected 15 Congressmen in the off year of 1878, but could garner only 307,306 votes for its presidential candidate in 1880. The Populists of 1890, riding a storm of discontent among bankrupt farmers and laborers ("The makers of clothes are underfed; the makers of food are underclothed"), elected nine Representatives and four Senators, but could poll only 1,000,000 votes in 1892 for James B. Weaver...
...Storm & Strife. Actually, the President decided more than a month ago that Landis would have to go. Harry Truman was concerned over the increasing friction in CAB, and over the dissatisfaction throughout the Administration with the way CAB was doing its job (TIME, March 17). The President talked it over with most of his top advisers. All admired Jim Landis' legal abilities and his fair-mindedness, but all had pet peeves. From almost every side came stories about Landis' irascibility and inability to get along with people...
...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...York City and its suburbs had the most wretched time of all. The people had just begun to stir feebly after a record 25.8 inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken...