Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cannon blast apparently had no influence on the House, one way or the other; it was just a low-order expression in an isolationist side street. When the vote came, the House refused to boost the Navy's air appropriations and rolled through the full $15.9 billion appropriation unchanged...
Frankie Waldron, with his wavy brown hair, his snappy clothes and his electric smile, was as handsome as a junior Arrow Collar Man. Frankie's family was far from well-to-do, but Frankie danced and wisecracked his way into Franklin High School's social upper crust. He was manager of the basketball team, manager of the senior play, and a passionate, if reedy-voiced, star of the debating team. Just about everybody who knew him in Seattle back in 1923 predicted that Frankie Waldron would...
Frankie had gone far, in a curious way. He was boss of one of the noisiest and most pertinacious minority parties in U.S. history, which now, generally discredited, was fighting for its life. Lawyers for the defense argued that fundamental rights of U.S. citizens, such as the right of free political thought, were at stake in the case. The legal battle would certainly go to the Supreme Court. Secretary Dennis was the cynosure among the other ten Communists on trial with him. He was surrounded by an aura of mystery. According to the party's carefully manufactured legend...
...curtained car and drove her to a hideaway on the city's outskirts. There was Frankie. He told his stepmother excitedly: "I'm going to Russia. You'll hear from me." That was the last Amelia ever saw of him. She did hear from him by way of an occasional postcard from Europe. Some years later a Los Angeles lawyer told her to stop around at his office, there confided to her that Reggie was happy, that Timothy was learning to speak Russian, and that Frankie was enrolled at the Lenin Institute in Moscow...
...liquor and a good dose of his oratory, their duty became plain. He arranged their passports and sent them packing, full of zeal. For Dennis, no chance for conquest was to be neglected. One of his followers, pretty, brown-haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...