Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Wherry resolution drastically changed the rules on filibusters. Formerly they could be shut off during debate on a measure by a simple two-thirds majority (as few as 33 members) of a quorum. Under the Wherry rule, cloture could be applied at any stage of a debate, but only...
U.S. management and labor once again demonstrated their ability to get together and settle a major wages-&-hours dispute without any uproar.
He said he did not know an orange from an apple, nor a cat from a baby. How had he told the passage of time? "I could see the tops of trees from my window and when there were leaves and birds I knew it was summer. Then when it...
Bomb for Grandeur? Thus began the Saint-Sylvestre rush. Paris headlines blared: WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY. Down the highroad from the capital poured reporters and would-be Forty-Niners of the Atomic Age. In a Saint-Sylvestre pub simple peasants talked grandly: "Our village will make France powerful again...
Lee Shubert, 74, who likes plenty of publicity for his 16 Broadway playhouses, was still being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior...