Word: wonders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House switchboard went into action. Out to the scattered newsmen went a warning: stand by at the pressroom for news. Back to the White House, from home and bar and party, the newsmen scurried. They gathered outside Secretary Stephen Early's office, to whisper, wait and wonder...
...main thing wrong was Republican Thomas E. Dewey. At 40, the famed racket-busting boy wonder of politics, whom many regarded with suspicion, was older and wiser. He had polished his vote-getting technique to a thing of rare beauty; he had rubbed away the rough spots; he talked sound good sense that no man could identify with youthful arrogance. He began his campaign at the upstate country fairs, mingling with the crowds, signing autographs, winning friends quietly. He pledged full support of the war, proposed a liberal five-point labor program, dissected the State Democratic machines, charged that...
This letter is, of course, prompted by the resurgence of the powerful dry lobby, and especially its efforts to force prohibition upon the areas surrounding Army posts. I wonder if the much-spoken-for "Mothers of America" really want their 18-and 19-year-old sons to come home used to drinking the cheapest liquor a pint at a time. ... I don't think it's sacrilege to include moderation in drinking as part of the American way. ... At the very least, it's a damn dirty trick to play on us while we're away...
...racing through the hustings. The Republicans were on the upsurge; the Democrats were worried; here was a chance to give his magic full play. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to remember that President Wilson had come to disaster when he pleaded for a Democratic Congress in 1918-and to wonder if he could not do better. This, perhaps luckily, was at most only...
...Small wonder, as one proud committeeman bragged last week, that "we were the most unpopular committee in WPB but business just loved us." Don Nelson planted himself squarely on the side of business, extended his red-tape surgeons' practice...