Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of federal controls, based at an even lower level than the present compromise farm bill. But how did the rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted for Harry Truman in 1948. With the Brannan Plan as bait, the Democrats were hoping to harvest the farm vote indefinitely...
...note of praise from the Minister of Public Works. After that the U.S. Commerce Department hired Jim at $10,000 a year. He helped on the planning for ECA, lectured before the Armed Forces Industrial College, lent expert advice to the Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He did so well that President Truman sent him a personal letter of commendation...
...Voice on the Phone. One night last week the telephone rang in Jim Glynn's well-appointed Washington apartment. It was a newspaper photographer asking for his picture. "What' for?" Jim asked. "Maybe you don't know it," said the photographer, "but you've just been indicted, mister...
...point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
...lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...