Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Willkie push in 1940, throbbed with excitement. Workmen put finishing touches on the $500,000 refurbishing of Convention Hall. Five shapely models, employed by a local restaurateur, patrolled such busy intersections as Chestnut & Broad, sporting large sashes with the provocative inscription: "Ask me anything." City officials passed the word to Philadelphia police that the 2 a.m. curfew was off for the duration...
...Dewey himself entered the fight. Fortnight ago Philadelphia's Sheriff Austin Meehan, a Duffman who has been given control of the job-heavy state Department of Revenue, got word that the governor of New York wanted to call for a personal interview. When Meehan replied that he would see Dewey only in Duff's company, the interview was called...
...poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word: "You don't overcome evil by evil. Let the record speak for itself...
...Worse Than Versailles." The Reds' operative word was the magic "unity." Last week the German "People's Council" (a Communist front) trumpeted that the London plan was "far worse than the Treaty of Versailles." The Reds offered an eight-point counterproposal. The gist: Germany must be one nation, indivisible; an all-German provisional government must be formed immediately; Bizonia and all plans for a Western state must be liquidated; Germany must have a voice in future peace negotiations...
...Storm of the Bastille . .." Next day, Palmiro Togliatti had the last word. It was a menacing word, one that indicated that the Reds might not be content to stop at parliamentary fisticuffs. Said he: "The aim of the new constitution was and is creation of a new order in the Italian state ... It is a problem which must inevitably be solved on the basis of force, of relation of material force . . . It is impossible to disarm an insurrection when it springs from political or class necessity. Sans-culottes* found arms to storm the Bastille and conquer proud Versailles . . . They...