Word: baloneyola
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...even funny. Never was I more complacent. Never was I more confident - strike out that word 'complacent.' " House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck denounced the House's $251 million depressed-areas bill as "political payola," and its housing bill as "a billion dollars' worth of baloneyola." Neither bill "can become law," said Halleck, "because if we can't beat them, we certainly can muster enough votes to sustain a veto...
Next day the House passed the bill that Halleck had called "baloneyola": an "emergency" housing measure authorizing federal purchases of $1 billion in mortgages on new houses costing $13,500 or less. But Dirksen, Halleck & Co. still had reason to be confident, if not complacent...
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