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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
...Note of Praise. After serving overseas in the Army Transportation Corps in World War II, Captain Glynn applied for a job with the Government's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. To make sure he got it, he added a few nonexistent qualifications: two years at Brown, a degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, a big job with a big trucking company. He got the job, and his transport survey for the Colombian government won him a warm note of praise from the Minister of Public Works. After that the U.S. Commerce Department hired Jim at $10,000 a year...
Then ECA needed a high-level expert to formulate and carry out its transport policy in Greece. Jim Glynn's application blank-embellished with a few more additions-was studded with so many achievements that ECA hired him on the spot at $12,000 a year and sent him to Greece. He did his usual competent job. But after five months, ECA suddenly told him his work was unsatisfactory and fired...
...Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards...
Across the Land. By this year, CARE-which had started at war's end with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener...