Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put off the bill until next year...
Denfeld's outburst startled a few people. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...power lobby had undoubtedly swayed some votes. Probably more were swayed by the facts summed up by Colorado's conservative Democrat Ed Johnson. His committee had given Olds a chance to take back the nasty things he wrote about capitalism 20 years before, but Olds, instead of repudiating his old wild-eyed opinions, had only admitted to phrasing them a little too strongly in order to "shock the American people" (TIME, Oct. 17). "Personally," boomed Johnson, "I regard Leland Olds as a warped, tyrannical, mischievous, egotistical chameleon whose predominant color is pink." Shortly thereafter, 58-year-old Leland Olds...
...cornfields got the worst of it. In rich Wright County, more than half the stalks were flattened. Said Farmer Leo Woodley: "I looked at my field about 10 a.m. when the wind began to blow. When I came back at noon, she was almost all down. Last year we got 80 bushels to the acre, and this year all we can hope...
Thompsons have traveled to many places and looked at many babies who might have been their son. Always it was the same-the twinge of hope, the sharp pain of disappointment, the sad journey back to Dayton...