Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservative Senator Josiah William Bailey of North Carolina, who has been 99% against the Administration except when campaigning for reelection, now recanted his onetime isolationism, ate his words with such solemn gusto that a hushed, impressed Senate clustered around his desk so as not to miss a syllable...
Isolationist Chief Burton K. Wheeler of Montana harked joyfully back to a Bailey speech of October 10, 1939, when the North Carolinian had said: "We are not going to get into this war. It is a European war. It is not our war. . . . If we were to get into it I should think we were the greatest pack of fools history has ever recorded...
...Answered Bailey readily: "I have utterly changed my mind. . . . I was devoted to the Neutrality Act. I know now that I am advocating its repeal. . . . I am now advocating intervention. . . . I am not advocating that we go to war. . . . But do not misunderstand me, I am advocating intervention with all its implications. I am not hedging. All my life I have looked a thing in the face and argued...
...BISHOP'S CRIME-H. C. Bailey -Crime Club ($2). Without Reggie Fortune, Hon. Sidney Lomas and Superintendent Bell of the Yard would have got nowhere with the murders and surreptitious excavations in & around Badon Cathedral. Mr. Fortune's feats of pure reason are spectacular as ever...
...finest dance orchestras in the country. The Album will definitely be welcome. . . . Dinah Shore's best record to date is Memphis Blues, a BLUEBIRD Vocadance. If you've missed hearing her, you should listen to this record, and you might notice the similarity to Mildred Bailey--unfortunately, however, lacking in that swell undisciplined quality that only Mildred can work into a tune...