Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Vision. When he came home half a dozen cities claimed Ace Rickenbacker as a native son. There was always a $10,000-or $12,000-a-year job with an automobile or aviation company waiting for Rickenbacker; he shuttled between the two. He also took over as operator of the Indianapolis Speedway; in his spare time he wrote adventure strips (Hall of Fame of the Air, Ace Drummond). In 1938 he found his real niche as the hard-driving president of Eastern Air Lines...
...whole vision was centered on expanded post-war aviation; but he knew that the U.S. was in World War II long before Pearl Harbor. Injuries received in an E.A.L. crash last year prevented an Army commission; the War Department found him useful on special missions...
...father, a pious Brahman, made a pilgrimage in 1835 to the footprint of Vishnu at Gaya, and there, it is said, had a dream in which Vishnu promised to be born as his son. On his return he found, it is said, that his wife had had a similar vision and had conceived. Ramakrishna was born on Feb. 18, 1836. He had his first spiritual ecstasy at the age of six or seven while eating puffed rice. "He looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful, dark thundercloud. As it spread, rapidly enveloping the whole sky, a flight...
...Casey has voted 100 per cent for the long over-due domestic policies of the New Deal. He has had the vision to see the necessity for them. And while Senator Lodge has voted against most of the President's foreign policy, Mr. Casey has supported it. He voted for the fortification of Guam, aircraft appropriations, neutrality revision, lend-lease, draft extension and renewal of the trade pacts. Though he naturally has made many mistakes he has resolutely proven to be a fighter for progressive democracy at home and abroad. He deserves to be elected to the Senate...
...Liberal Union feels that the election of Joe Casey to the Senate next Tuesday is vital to the good government of American democracy at war. Casey, in his four terms at Congress, has had the vision to see that the United States was heading for war and the courage to urge preparation for it. Lodge's vacillations during the same period have been those of a man consistently playing both ends against the middle with an eye to personal advantage...