Word: affirmative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...
...ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were ready to admitit: if the President insists on Henry Wallace again, even Southerners and Midwesterners, who like him least, will have to take him. Cried Henry Wallace: "The President has never denied the principles of the New Deal...
Congress Defends. Last week, one month after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the S.E.U.A. case (dismissed last year by the Atlanta District Court), the House Judiciary Committee voted out, 16-to-5, a bill that would flatly affirm the industry's We-Are-Not-Commerce defense: ". . . Nothing contained in the , . . Sherman Act, or the . . . Clayton Act, shall be construed to apply to the business of insurance." The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to report out an identical bill, introduced by Indiana's bespectacled, hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable...
...constantly interrupted dream, Shaw has put frills on the dialogue, lace pants on the sentiments, and- for extra tone - he tosses in comments on Beethoven, Brahms, Renoir and Keats. Finally, even the point of Sons and Sol diers is feeble: for a real mother to affirm life after having lived it would mean something; but a young girl's affirmation, on the basis of her feverish dreams, lacks the authority of experience...
...cheered him in front of his residence in Santiago. Next day he addressed the Chilean Congress, warmly patted President Juan Antonio Ríos and Chile's Popular Front: ". . . Now the great masses [of Chile] advance toward a fuller liberty. Its people are on a revolutionary march to affirm this land as one of dignity of the human spirit. And this revolution should continue until man is freed from the oppression...