Word: browder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brazilian government is again seeking the $350 million needed to complete the road all the way to Peru, a prospect that alarms environmentalists. "One lesson we have learned in the Amazon is that when you improve a road, you unleash uncontrolled development on the rain forest," says John Browder, a specialist on Rondonia's deforestation from Virginia Polytechnic Institute...
...Polly Browder...
...Gail Browder...
...solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing in the ruins and demanded to know what he was laughing...