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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glibly easy to nominate Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill or Stalin. But it was Lenin who started the main current of events which in one way or another brought out the greatness in these men . . . The acknowledgement should go to the man who started it all, Lenin, damn...
...Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of federal controls, based at an even lower level than the present compromise farm bill. But how did the rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted for Harry Truman in 1948. With the Brannan Plan as bait, the Democrats were hoping to harvest the farm vote indefinitely...
...show opened, the Whitney announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
...existence. As one of 49 male teachers at Vassar College (enrollment: 1,370) in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., he had long felt a bit like the "sad and forlorn little fellow in the advertisement who is surrounded by hundreds of people, all reading the Bulletin except himself." Finally, in the current issue of the Vassar Alumnae Magazine, 42-year-old Professor Erck told more...
...perfunctory "Can I help you?" The truck operated by electricity and had a complete gear panel. On the front of the 18-inch-long vehicle was an elevator such as is used to life and carry heavy crates or cotton bales. The truck, which ran on house current, could only travel in a circle of about four feet...