Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine, when after school chores in his father's shop were in order. These chores were good experience in more than shoemaking. Rushing the growler for his father, Peter found it expeditions to slip off a hit of the beer that might otherwise have spilled in transit. "In a family of fourteen, anyhow, there never was enough milk for everybody...
...Keyserling was concerned, the job was to report the scene so that it fitted into the political philosophy of Harry Truman's Democratic Party. Between those two points of view, Clark wavered back & forth. In the beginning, Nourse's view of the CEA as an economic transit, not a political tool, generally prevailed...
...with a Transit. For three years, good, grey Edwin Nourse, 66, a onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, had been chairman of Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...debut, Curley swept the city with a wave of reform that left his critics gasping. He built schools, playgrounds and beaches; he hired new doctors for the city hospital; he extended the transit systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop a hole through it to maintain the sight...