Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress to do something which historically it had shown it was incapable of doing. While conservatives and liberals alike might be for frying out the other fellow's fat, each & everyone had his own favorite morsels to save: jobs for friends, subsidies for farmers, pensions for veterans, home-town creeks to be dredged, projects deemed essential to constituents' happinessi and essential to a Congressman's future...
...week's end, the labor-conscious President heard a rude noise from his own home town. An A.F.L. painters' union complained that the summer White House in Independence, Mo. was being painted by a non-union painter...
...Policemen. Shortly after crossing the muddy Elbe near Magdeburg, we began to see evidences of the blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After...
Falled in Town...
...critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned up to see what all the fuss was about. The proof of Henry Moore's pudding, they figured, would be in the eating...