Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Example: two weeks ago, Alvin Meyer, a 53-year-old farmer of Van Meter, Iowa, walked into Des Moines' radio station WHO, announced that he wanted to go on the air for Truman, plunked down $85 to pay for the time. In his broadcast, he explained: in 1932 he was broke and facing foreclosure. Today he owns 540 acres of land, 500 hogs, a restaurant, and twelve filling stations. It was the Democrats and their aid to farmers that did it, he declared. Why change...
...PAUL VAN AUKEN Indianapolis...
Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Cleveland, John Adams and Polk. Average: John Quincy Adams, Monroe, Hayes, Madison, Van Buren, Taft, Arthur, McKinley, Johnson, Hoover, Benjamin Harrison. Below average: Tyler, Coolidge, Fillmore, Taylor, Buchanan and Pierce. Failures: Grant and Harding, both of whose administrations were marked by corruption...
...bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
Seven selected men from Jaakko Mikkola's cross country squad will be running against the nation's best at 11 a.m. this morning in the annual Heptagonal, race at Van Courlandt park in the Bronx, New York...