Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tear down the White House and start anew, or save the shell and rebuild the foundations and interior. Tearing it down entirely would have saved perhaps 10% of the bill, but even the most tight-fisted Congressman found a little sentiment stirring in his breast at so crass a thought. Last week a congressional committee approved plans for the spending of $5,400,000 to restore 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a way destined to make the White House survive in all its classic glory for another 300 to 500 years...
...zealous U.S. envoys who urged and arranged negotiations with Communist leaders. As he became ever more stubbornly sure that Chinese unity could be won only by whipping the Red armies in battle, U.S. advisers from General Marshall down ever more firmly warned he could not win. They still thought China should make a deal with the Communists. Dead set against any deal of the kind, Chiang cockily prophesied: "Given time, the ripe apple will fall into our laps...
...There are, however, other incidental expenses involved in education, expenses for such purposes as the transportation of children to & from school, the purchase of non-religious textbooks and the provision of health aids." The Cardinal thought that Catholic pupils were entitled to such "auxiliary services," just as they were already entitled to free lunches under the School Lunch Act. Said the Cardinal...
Kings & Commoners. The idea of bringing cheap books to the multitudes first struck Haldeman-Julius when he was 15, after he had breathlessly devoured a cheap copy of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol. Maybe, he thought, if books were cheap enough, more people would read them. Fifteen years later, when he became the publisher of a weekly Socialist newspaper in Girard, Haldeman-Julius decided to try the idea. He pulled out the battered old Ballad and a companion copy of the Rubáiyát, handed them to his perplexed linotype operator to set in type...
Chinese Jackpot. In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes. The trouble with playshoes, he thought, was that their flat soles made women look dumpy. He copied the elevated, platform-type slipper which the Chinese had worn for centuries, and brought out "wedgies." This time he hit the jackpot...