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...Democrat to raise. While Lodge's record might not be the best in the Senate, Kennedy's is undeniably the worst in the House. Kennedy has maintained an average absentee record of 29% over the last six years, and in 1951-52 (with the aid of a malaria attack, admittedly) he was absent in well over 40% of the roll calls...
...Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany -drive these countries into Communist arms. He also graphically described post-Civil War conditions in Louisiana, including malaria, pellagra, and child labor. He got a rousing cheer when he finished his speech with a tribute to the vigor of French civilization-delivered .in excellent French...
...Mean This?" In his bungalow beside the Niger River he read a lot, thought a lot, tried to write a Conrad-like novel. But his old wound was acting up, and he had asthma, insomnia and malaria. His wife and family begged him to leave the service. He still had his ?300 a year, his wife had ?600, and his father-in-law promised: "I'll see you through." Gary decided to settle down in Oxford and be a writer...
...never went beyond Chickamauga. Instead, he watched 112 out of the 120 men in his company succumb to malaria, typhoid and dysentery in Georgia. That caused him to worry about other things besides the classics. "Why had this government of ours rushed gaily into . . . war . . .? Why was no attention ever given to the problems of sanitation ? Why were we left with obsolete rifles . . .?" To answer some of these questions, Johnson took up economics...
...live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread; the rich, white variety is available only to the rich). Three out of four own less than an acre of land, two out of three suffer from hookworm and malaria, nine out of ten are partially blind from the effects of bad water and undernourishment. Near the palace gates, beggars lay in the hot sun, too weak, sick, or hopeless to drag themselves into the shade...