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Despite his Republican background, he had fallen into the habit of voting for Franklin Roosevelt. Out of his market research, and his admiration for the New Deal, he had decided that the future of the nation lay in raising the living standards of its lowest-bracket third. One day he called on Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Francis Maloney and said: "Senator, I want to get into Democratic politics. How do I go about...
...Cabinet delegation will negotiate against a background of famine. The monsoons failed to bring India's seasonal heavy rains; cyclones and tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...
...choose the first three of their bishops, beginning with John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789, had then taken alarm. For the next century, U.S. bishops were chosen by Rome's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and those selected were most often either Irish or French in background...
Noodle (verb): to play a few bars of background music...
...exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the quiet loveliness of a well-tended flower garden." Shamus was even more trampled when he discovered that Cleo was one of the Hollywood party which he had agreed to ship to New Guinea in search of background material for a new film...