Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Carolina's long, lantern-jawed Josiah ("Holy Joe") Bailey, 71, an anti-New Deal Senator who once edited a Bible magazine, still tries to be forgiving. Last week Harold Ickes sorely tried Joe Bailey's patience by loosening a characteristic blast against a Bailey Senate amendment. Up rose the Senator for a 6,800-word reply. Its burden...
...disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
...places, men of the Third floundered waist-deep through mucilaginous mud. As sault boats as well as Bailey bridges were used to cross swollen streams...
Last week the Germans blew up bridges over the Zuid Willemsvaart Canal. The British put down a Bailey bridge, sent infantry, tanks, flamethrowers into the town...
...clergy arrived at 11. The others dined, played bridge, arrived at midnight. Supper was served before 1:00 for the elderly, who took a glass of champagne, a cup of bouillon, a roll, and their departure. The youngsters danced till daybreak, ate breakfast of ham & eggs, and hurried to Bailey's Beach for a swim...