Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few...
The first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine...
The one-man quiz show went on for more than an hour and a half before Morse called a halt. Political reporters who heard him thought that he came out on top. Morse is up for re-election next year; so far, his possible opponents, like his questioners, are still...
Government agents had kept watch on merchants' prices, had set rents at a modest $44 a month for a five-room house (including heat), had fended off crime, slums and commercialized sin. And Richlanders didn't even have any local taxes to pay: the Government made up the...
Richland's inhabitants, for the most part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some...