Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's café society, zealous Bob Hannegan began to have dazzling ideas about an old-time Roosevelt campaign tour. He made proposals to Democratic bigwigs; he jiggled dates with Madison Square Garden officials. The rumors grew: there might be two speeches in New York City, one in upper New York State, one in Pittsburgh. Chicago began plans for a Roosevelt appearance at Soldier Field. Cleveland dusted its Public Auditorium...
...real significance of the new offensive was that it marked the impending close of the Baltic campaign. Soon the Russians would have eight whole army groups north of the Carpathians with nothing left to attack but East Prussia and the line from that province through Warsaw to the upper Vistula-sectors which seemed long overdue for attention...
...Reduce heavy income taxes in the upper brackets until they are not so high as to "remove incentives for assuming risk." Modify the double tax on dividends...
This week, four weeks after the liberation of Paris, the prevailing mood of middle and upper class Frenchmen was worry. People still smiled warmly, and in the houses of the haute bourgeoisie near the Bois there was always a profusion of flowers and of cold dry champagne to drive away the drowsiness that follows the rich meals. But after dinner the talk turned inevitably to politics which, in these houses, meant one thing: how to prevent Communism. The feeling was one of intense fear of something that might come...
Italian chaos was on two levels. On the upper, Communists, Socialists, Actionists cross-hauled each other. Socialists demanded Italy for Italians while their Communist associates-of-the-moment demanded Italian land for Italian peasants. Both roundly, steadily attacked the Bonomi Government, of which each was a part. The politically important Action Party attacked the Communists, charged the Reds with violence in breaking up Action Party rallies. The force of these conflicts constantly cross-hauled the people on the lower level...