Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mr. Wallace was still taking it seriously, making earnest speeches. From Indianapolis to Kansas City, following Willkie's still-warm trail, he traveled, warning, "If peace comes there will be a day of reckoning" when the nation will need Franklin Roosevelt. In Topeka he reminded an audience of farmers that they had "the sympathy and understanding help of a friendly President, a friendly Department of Agriculture, a friendly Congress and a just Supreme Court." In Woodward, Okla., he declared that Wendell Willkie would not be able to save the New Deal farm program-which he supports-from...
...Roosevelt gracefully accepted both, signed both. Said he, calling upon 16,500,000 male citizens to register for the draft Oct. 16: "We have set forth the underlying . . . duties, obligations and responsibilities of equal service. . . . We have not carved a new and uncharted trail in the history of our democratic institutions. On the contrary, we have merely reasserted an old and accepted principle of democratic government...
Sweat, Blood, Loneliness. Senator McNary warmed up his 12,000 listening Oregonians with a salute to the Oregon Trail. In a country where pioneers' picnics are an annual event and where the wheel marks of wagon trails still show near Emigrant Springs Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks...
...even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...
...added Hebrew, Sanskrit, Gothic, Icelandic, Rumanian, Dutch. "His methodical, orderly mind moved like a stone-crusher, reducing the boulders of thought to a flow of gravel that anyone could build a mental road with." Evolution was his religion. There was Francis Parkman, who had been over the Oregon Trail. Life in the West had destroyed his digestion and given him chronic insomnia. Arthritis crippled him. A nervous disorder "engulfed his mind." He had published The Conspiracy of Pontiac. It was 14 years before he could publish the next volume of his "history of the American forest...