Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...
...Cities, flanked by Republican Governor Luther Youngdahl and Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, Truman rolled through 21 miles of streets lined by 400,000 citizens (police estimate). Every school was out; there were bands, color guards, a 21-gun presidential salute. Truman stopped at the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children, at the centennial exhibit at the historical society, at the College of St. Thomas...
There was little to be done. Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
Wire & Rope. One day last August, the party set out for Kashgar, an ancient trading post near the Soviet border. There were 16 travelers, including 50-year-old Paxton and his wife Vincoe, an ex-Army nurse; Vice Consul Robert Dreeson; two White Russian chauffeurs and their wives & children; a Turki interpreter and his sister; his wife and four-month-old baby...
...sports a cap with "Star Beer Brewery" on it. Ernst's home has the distinction of a pine paneled bar equipped with 72 beer steins, several Italian wine jugs, a pewter edged two litre drinking horn, and plenty of schnapps. Ernst recalls the old days in Bavaria when the children used barrel staves or the long slats from the tops of egg crates for skis...