Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Taylor, who will have the rank of Ambassador, but without portfolio, will be the first U. S. envoy to visit the Vatican officially since Rufus King left Rome in 1868, after Congress refused to appropriate any more money for his salary...
Last week the left-wing Oregon Commonwealth Federation circulated initiative petitions to get Franklin Roosevelt's name on the May 17 primary ballot. Federation officials maliciously challenged John Nance Garner to file in the primary, jeered: "If your Oregon sponsors have difficulty securing requisite signatures, we offer you assistance...
Last week Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring addressed the nation on the subject of Moral Rearmament. He approved it. This surprised only those who think of the Secretary of War as a warlike character. Mr. Woodring is in fact a gentle character who asks only to be left at peace in his job. Said he last week in a speech over a coast-to-coast radio network: "Nations, like men, are their own worst enemies. The menacing might of human selfishness in every country is mankind's chief danger. It is because the war to end selfishness...