Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to some 450,000 indexed folders of biographical, historical, business and otherwise usefully classified information. * The answers, in order: 1) Yellow Kid by Richard Outcoult, in the New York World; 2) 280 days; 3) Yes. At the 1924 convention in New York City; 4) Not even the wisest hagiologist knows; 5) lotus blossoms, phlox pods, the squirting cucumber of southern Europe; 6) average cost of a Class 6 battleship: $92,122,100; 7) an estimated...
South Carolina's Thurmond, who fervently hoped to capture Texas and its 23 electoral votes, made it plain to his cheering audience, at least, that the Dixiecrats were the only hope of the South-yes, of the whole country. He lumped Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace together and solemnly declared that they all hoped to give the country the "new Russian look." Harry Truman's civil-rights program, he said, was a plot to make the U.S. a police state...
...Anatomy of Happiness. Do wealth and fame bring happiness? To Betty Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with no raise in salary and no provision for outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want...
...would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners gave him a good mark for the way he handled the discussion...
...teachers do any good there? Yes, says Anne; she hadn't really enjoyed her stay, "but you can see the good you're doing. So many Poles are wavering. Every little bit helps...