Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair. Draft writer: Kevin McCann, president of Ohio's Defiance College and author of Ike's 1952 campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone to the National Presbyterian Church), found time late in the day for turkey with Mamie (who will not go on the big trip), Son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara (who will), the four Eisenhower grandchildren...
...Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler's Nazi coalition won a Reichstag majority for the first time, though even then the Nazis' share of the vote was only 43.9%. Thereafter Hitler was able to eliminate all opposition, jail people at will, confiscate property and censor newspapers and books...
...same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely 1% of the 4,000,000-man labor force...
...generations, Russell's skeptical prejudices have had their share in depopulating the church in Britain; now he can occasionally be seen looking in its direction with the suspicion that perhaps that is where the body of ethics lies buried. His refutation of Plato's ethics, which tended to equate virtue with knowledge, is a case in point. Men who know most, suggests Russell (who knows a great deal), are not necessarily the best...
...eventual arrest of the salesmen was brought about when a Holworthy boy, in an effort to find someone to share the cost of a subscription, burst into his proctor's room. The proctor immediately summoned the Yard policemen, who after questioning the boys called Cambridge police. The orphans were taken away to jail at about 6:15 Saturday, but were almost immediately bailed out by an agent of the subscription company, who maintained that all the magazines purchased will be delivered...