Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But business must be bold, said Mr. Truman. The one major cause for alarm was an 18% decline in 1949 in domestic business investment. Said he: "There is no need for this decline to continue. There are immense opportunities for business investment. . . The enterprise and imagination of private businessmen will...
Harry Truman didn't stop there: he un- oiled some new ideas for spending money: a housing program for the "middle-income" group, for which he proposed a $50 million appropriation; $320 million aid to education, including the beginning of a program of "community colleges" for everyone and a...
There was one voice, sadder in its tone and firmer in its faith than all the others, which spoke out on Formosa this week in the eloquence of personal tragedy. Madame Chiang Kaishek, wife of the beleaguered leader of anti-Communist China, sat before a microphone in her brother-in...
"There were a few kids in our town who were known to be members of Democratic families. We were always allowed to march too, but they put us at the end of the line, so as not to contaminate the rest of them. Gradually we realized that we were always...
He was no man to fit easily into any pigeonhole; if there was one, it had long gone unused. On the basis of the record so far, Douglas seemed to be the nearest visible approach to an almost forgotten breed of American maverick-the old freewheeling Republican independent like Idaho...