Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Embarrassing Present. The prime Republican business of the new year would be to get swift passage of a tax-reduction bill. Last week House Speaker Joe Martin predicted that Congress would "send the White House a tax present some time in January." The present he had in mind was the bill introduced in December by Minnesota's persistent Harold Knutson, whose two previous bills were vetoed by Harry Truman. The new bill would cut taxes some $5.6 billion, by reducing rates and increasing personal exemptions...
...people of the tiny Colombian village of Pauna, snuggling in the Andean foothills a day's motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...
Shoeshine (Italian). A swift and deeply moving film which went far beyond most works of "social protest" in compassion, moral sensitiveness and tragic understanding (TIME, Sept...
...Bentley, who has tried to truss Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized, his plays were adored, but his opinions...
...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...