Word: true
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide 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...
...wooden blocks across the kitchen floor and make believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan turned to embarrassed U.S. attorneys for an explanation; the attorneys turned to the FBI. It was true, the FBI admitted reluctantly, that it had done so, and was, in fact, still intercepting the mail of Judy's codefendant, a suspended Russian U.N. employee named Valentin Gubichev. The FBI also had planted a microphone in the Justice Department office, where Judy worked as an analyst and, according to the Government, collected U.S. secrets for transmission to Gubichev...
...clash of life has transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse...
...Musical Society's Acis and Galatea is certainly a bit of good luck. The blurb on the back of the envelope tells us that the broadcast of last spring's performance was recorded as an experiment. It goes on to say that the success justified its release. This is true...