Word: anyhow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leader Lucas offered McCarran one last chance to report out some kind of D.P. bill-even if it was the shabby bill which McCarran himself had proposed." When would he be ready? Replied Pat: "Probably not before next May." Well, what if the committee reported out the McCarran bill anyhow? Pat hit the ceiling. "I would be forced to oppose my own bill," he roared. "I have been gathering a lot of material on this question for weeks. I have enough to fill the Congressional Record from now to next Christmas...
...small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...
Just a Brother. Reuther was careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
...Anyhow, it made good reading...
...Princess Margaret has no idea of going to the United States at present," replied her lady-in-waiting to an invitation from the Ogdensburg, N.Y. Chamber of Commerce. "In fact, it would be quite impossible for her to do so" (the letter did not explain why). But anyhow, the princess sent her thanks to Ogdensburg, and wanted the Chamber of Commerce to know "how very much she would like to accept...