Word: acted
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...house might be "plunged into a jungle." Retorted Anderson: "The House [which adopts its rules at each new session] walked through this jungle yesterday and in 30 seconds emerged intact." But, argued New York's Irving Ives, "the point is whether the Senate shall have the power to act if a reasonable number of its members believe that action ... is necessary." Not so, said Georgia's Dick Russell for the Southerners: the real issue was protection of "freedom of debate...
Such behavior is strange in the political rough-and-tumble. But Knowland has never known any other way to act. The essential to understanding William Fife Knowland is that although he is driven furiously by a sense of destiny, he is always controlled by the traditions of dynasty...
...hand Knowland one of the worst indignities that can be inflicted on a majority leader: he adjourned the Senate right out from under Bill's nose. Again, Knowland's impatient ways led him to try to cut off debate on a bill to revise the Atomic Energy Act. His move so irritated a minority of liberals that they launched into a 13-day filibuster. Knowland, who loves a good fight, was unbothered. One morning during the filibuster he arose from his office couch after a few hours' sleep and rushed forth announcing happily: "Boy, will we give...
...will sell the Rio government $138,700,000 worth of the surplus, most of it ($111,000,000) in wheat; 2) Brazil will make payment in nondollar currency, i.e., cruzeiros; and 3) the U.S. in turn (under the terms of the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act) will use the currency to finance economic and other development projects in Brazil...
Granted, Gaitskell has been able to "surmount" the initial political weaknesses of his personality and background, but many English observers feel that he continues to react to political situations as the academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining...